The relinker eligibility list was written on 10-12 and missed inputs added to the relinker-only build since then: the nid sources that relinker_core and two relinker tests compile, the libkernel headers that ParamJsonParser.cpp includes, the pad command file test, the recompiler test targets and cache source tests, and the PR template and pr-overlap.yml that tools tests read. A pull request that changed only these got no automatic build, and a push to main skipped the macOS relinker hosts for them.
The recompiler is listed as a directory because shader_cache_runtime_sources copies all of core/shader/recompiler and hashes every file its CMakeLists globs, so an edit to any of them can change that test.
An edit to the relinker-asan job alone also skipped both relinker jobs, because only edits to the relinker job counted.
The eligibility job enabled the relinker matrix for a pull request only
when repos.listCommits on main with the author's login returned a
commit. That filter misses authors whose commits in main are not
matched to their login. On 2026-10-13 it found no commit for 26 authors
of open pull requests who have 1 to 44 pull requests merged into main,
so their pull requests skip the relinker, against CONTRIBUTING.md ("if
its author already has a commit in main").
When listCommits finds nothing, the job now also searches for the
author's merged pull requests into main, with the query pr-intake.yml
uses. Incomplete search results count as none. A failed search, such as
the search API's own rate limit, skips the relinker with a warning
instead of failing the job. Both requests now run only when the pull
request changes a relinker file, so other pull requests make neither.
test_build_eligibility.py runs the step's script in node with a mocked
github object and skips when node is missing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Ahmad Mujahid