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@acstll acstll commented Oct 17, 2025

Summary

Updating the PR template to address a common pitfall: forgetting to manually test any fixes that have a direct effect in other repos.

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Take this as a suggestion, I'm happy to close

Why are we making this change?

To avoid shipping fixes or changes that will look good in isolation, and will include proper automated tests, etc. but still might fail to fully fulfill any external requirements.

A recent example:

It appeared unnecessary to do, and the PR (#9059) was properly reviewed, but some extra smoke testing would have saved some time.

@acstll acstll self-assigned this Oct 17, 2025
@acstll acstll requested a review from a team as a code owner October 17, 2025 11:52
@acstll acstll added the skip-changelog Use on PRs to skip changelog requirement (Don't delete - used for automation) label Oct 17, 2025
@acstll acstll requested a review from JasonStoltz October 17, 2025 11:54
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If this check is supposed to help us then I don't have anything against 😄 Maybe we could link to wiki for "smoke testing" guidelines, or at least "how to test in Kibana"?

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acstll commented Oct 17, 2025

Maybe we could link to wiki for "smoke testing" guidelines, or at least "how to test in Kibana"?

I think that's a great idea, link to "how to test in Kibana" as an example 🤔

@acstll acstll merged commit f1b78b3 into elastic:main Oct 21, 2025
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