From ca04689c94e31cf723fbe39ef67a3ea7964a2ffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Parrish <joeyparrish@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:05:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ci: Make linting happen entirely in parallel (#1556)

It has been very, very annoying lately to have PRs get stuck in several
loops of linter failures without finding out if the thing builds or
passes tests. From now on, lint in parallel with everything else.
---
 .github/workflows/lint.yaml | 3 +++
 .github/workflows/pr.yaml   | 8 ++------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yaml b/.github/workflows/lint.yaml
index 1952ec14e5..d7456a71c3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yaml
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ jobs:
 
           python3 -m pip install --upgrade pylint==3.3.3
 
+          # Debug clang-format version for clarity.
+          clang-format --version
+
           # NOTE: Must use base.sha instead of base.ref, since we don't have
           # access to the branch name that base.ref would give us.
           # NOTE: Must also use fetch-depth: 2 in actions/checkout to have
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr.yaml b/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
index 96ecd6c18e..40c63a167e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
       ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
   build_and_test:
-    needs: [lint, settings]
+    needs: [settings]
     name: Build and test
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build.yaml
     with:
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
       debug: ${{ needs.settings.outputs.debug != '' }}
 
   build_docs:
-    needs: [lint, settings]
+    needs: [settings]
     name: Build docs
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-docs.yaml
     with:
@@ -58,16 +58,12 @@ jobs:
       debug: ${{ needs.settings.outputs.debug != '' }}
 
   official_docker_image:
-    needs: lint
     name: Official Docker image
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build-docker.yaml
     with:
       ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
 
   test_supported_linux_distros:
-    # Doesn't really "need" it, but let's not waste time on a series of docker
-    # builds just to cancel it because of a linter error.
-    needs: lint
     name: Test Linux distros
     uses: ./.github/workflows/test-linux-distros.yaml
     with: