I have been using GitHub actions for a while and they are great! With them you can define your CI/CD along your code and review any changes to CI/CD through your normal PR processes. I’m intending to write more about great workflows and best practices, especially for Python packages, although that will be in a future post. This post addresses a pain point I have had and you may have had as well. Specifically, in PRs, it is possible on GitHub to enforce things like approvals from reviewers before being able to merge. GitHub also has a setting to require status checks to pass before being able to merge, although you have to define exactly which status checks you want to pass. I usually find the names of my status checks change a lot, especially if I’m using matrix strategies for multiple Python versions or package versions. Below we discuss a simple technique to reduce how often you have to update the required status checks!

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