Clarification regarding the GitHub Actions pre-submit testing

[Thomas Stüfe]

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> After yesterday's discussion, that can be amended to "You can reasonably
> ignore GHA failures by
> securing the reviewers agreement that: a) failures are not related to the
> current PR; or b)
> failures, while related, are beyond the scope of this PR and/or
> contributor capabilities, and the
> breakage is, while unfortunate, intentional, known and recorded in these
> follow-up bugs".
>

What about failures that are not related to the patch but prevent execution
of tests which are needed to validate the patch? We should prevent
piling untested patches upon broken ones, like in a rush before code
freeze. This is mostly an issue with independents which have no vendor
system to test.