ci: remove Linear Issue Reference gate from validate.yml#225
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Linear is used for major project tracking only, not every PR. Requiring an AMC-N reference (or the No-Linear-Issue opt-out trailer) on every PR adds friction without proportional value for the work that doesn't map to a Linear ticket. Particularly ritualistic for bot-authored PRs, which categorically don't have tickets. The original incident that prompted this check (AMC-71/72/73/74 staying in Backlog after their work shipped, 2026-05-02) is real, but the failure mode is acceptable: Linear tickets for major projects that DO get referenced will still auto-close on merge. Tickets that nobody referenced just need a manual close, which is the same operation the team is already doing for tickets that never had PRs. Removes the `linear-ref` job (49 lines) from validate.yml. No other changes; all other validation jobs (Lint, Tests, Build Operator Image, Commit Lint, Detect Changed Files, Semgrep) keep firing as before. No-Linear-Issue: removing the gate itself, the gate would be self-referentially required to allow this PR to merge Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: amcheste <13696614+amcheste@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Removes the
linear-refjob from.github/workflows/validate.yml. Linear is used for major project tracking only, not every PR — requiring anAMC-Nreference (or theNo-Linear-Issue:opt-out trailer) on every PR adds friction without proportional value.Why
The check was added after AMC-71/72/73/74 stayed in Backlog post-merge (verified 2026-05-02, per the workflow's own comment). That failure mode is real for tickets that should have been referenced. But:
No-Linear-Issue: <reason>) made every untracked PR a ritualistic two-line affair.After this change: PRs working a Linear ticket will still reference it (you do that naturally for the auto-close); PRs that don't need a ticket no longer have to declare that they don't.
What's removed
linear-refjob (49 lines): comment block + job definition.What's NOT removed
Verification
grep -c "linear-ref\|Linear Issue Reference\|AMC-" .github/workflows/validate.yml→ 0.linear-refor its outputs.} | tee -a "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"from the priorrelease-bump-suggestionjob).Note
This PR includes a
No-Linear-Issue:trailer on the commit so the gate that's being removed allows this very PR through to merge. After merge, the trailer becomes vestigial — future PRs don't need it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
No-Linear-Issue: removing the gate itself, the gate would be self-referentially required to allow this PR to merge