Nothing validates main after a merge, and the weekly check has been red for a month

[Ultimate-Storm]

Problem

Nothing validates main after a merge.

.github/workflows/pr-test.yaml triggers on pull_request, schedule and workflow_dispatch. There is no push trigger, so a merge to main runs no validation at all.

On 2026-09-08 four PRs merged in succession — #533, #544, #446, #514 — one of which (#446) changes the base image and the apt strategy in Dockerfile_ODELIA. No run validated the result. Establishing whether main was healthy required dispatching the workflow by hand.

It was healthy: run 34236734953 came back with 25 steps passing and only step 23 failing. But that was luck confirmed after the fact, not a signal the project produced on its own.

The weekly schedule does not fill the gap

0 5 * * 0 is the only automatic check on main, and it has failed every time it has run — 2026-08-16, 08-23, 08-30, 09-06, all schedule / failure. The cause is a one-line omission in the dispatcher (#552), unrelated to the health of main.

A check that is always red carries no information. It has been red long enough that a genuine regression on main would have looked exactly the same as the previous four weeks.

Suggested fix

• Add push: branches: [main] to pr-test.yaml, so a merge is validated.
• Land fix(ci): build startup kits before the weekly all-models preflight #552 so the weekly schedule can pass, and treat a weekly failure as actionable.

The second matters as much as the first: a post-merge run that nobody trusts is no better than no run.

Related

• Green up the README CI badges (stale/red — mostly cadence + #388/#389) #390 — stale/red README badges. Same root cause: the signal has been red long enough that nobody reads it.
• fix(ci): build startup kits before the weekly all-models preflight #552 — fixes the weekly failure.
• CI: the self-hosted runner shares a host with the DECADE builds and deploy tests (root cause behind #388) #448 — runner contention, which makes a red result ambiguous even when the check is meaningful.