Add CI matrix guidelines documentation#434
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Documents principles and practices for determining CI test matrices in .github/workflows/ test jobs. Guidelines cover coverage priorities, matrix sizing strategy, and rollout procedures for version updates.
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Thank you for creating this! It gathers together a lot of different discussions/resources about how RAPIDS uses the matrix of dependencies and where limited scope has been used.
I added some optional syntactic sugar to a couple places in an attempt to highlight important sections critical for success using some github markdown magic.
Not required, but turns something like this:
Into something more obvious like this:
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Co-authored-by: Nate Rock <rockhowse@gmail.com>
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MATRIX_GUIDELINES.mddocumenting the principles for determining CI test matrices.Guidelines extracted from PR discussions (#431, #428, #413, #412) and current matrix configurations across build/test workflows.
This explains the various dimensions of CI coverage: