copyrights/licenses check was removed, probably by mistake

[yegor256]

#535 was closed, but copyrights.yml is not in .github/workflows any more. Any particular reason for disabling this check or it was removed by mistake?

[yegor256]

@deemp I see that now this check stays in ghc.yml. This looks a bit wrong, in my opinion. It's better to have separate jobs/files in CI, instead of one large job. Many smaller files will make build easier to understand for contributors: why it fails. @fizruk WDYT?

[deemp]

Many smaller files will make build easier to understand for contributors: why it fails.

@yegor256, we want to make contributors fix all problems discovered during static checks before running the tests and the pipeline. The most straightforward way to achieve this goal is to make the tests and pipeline jobs depend on the check job.

Usually, it's easy to discover the problem if one of the static checks fails.

Here, none of them has failed.

[yegor256]

@deemp may I ask why?

we want to make contributors fix all problems discovered during static checks before running the tests and the pipeline.

[deemp]

@yegor256, to maintain the code quality. Citing ChatGPT:

If static checks fail, there's no point in running tests. Running tests on code that has basic quality issues or linting violations would be a waste of CI resources, as the code is already in an unacceptable state. Running static checks first allows you to catch these issues early and avoid unnecessary test runs.

[yegor256]

@deemp fair enough. Can you make jobs depend on each other while staying in different YAML files?