CI: don't trigger tests for "on push" if changes only in docs folder or markdown files; move devops_tests and pre-commit jobs to a separate workflow

.github/workflows/precommit.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+name: precommit and devops tests
+
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash
+
+env:
+  # common options for pytest
+  pytest_options: "--durations=10 -v -s -We -p no:unraisableexception"
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+    paths: ['docs/**', '**.md']
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ main ]
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 13 * * 4'
+
+jobs:
+  precommit:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.6
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5.0.0
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.9
+      - run: |
+          pip install pre-commit
+          pre-commit clean
+          pre-commit autoupdate
+          pre-commit run --all-files
+      - if: ${{ failure() }}
+        run: git diff
+
+  devops:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.6
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+          fetch-depth: 0  # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/issues/480
+      - run: pip install -r tests/devops_tests/requirements.txt
+      - env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: pytest  ${{ env.pytest_options }} -k "not test_run_notebooks" tests/devops_tests

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -14,27 +14,13 @@ env:
 on:
   push:
     branches: [ main ]
+    paths-ignore: ['docs/**', '**.md']
   pull_request:
     branches: [ main ]
   schedule:
     - cron: '0 13 * * 4'
 
 jobs:
-  precommit:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.6
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5.0.0
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.9
-      - run: |
-          pip install pre-commit
-          pre-commit clean
-          pre-commit autoupdate
-          pre-commit run --all-files
-      - if: ${{ failure() }}
-        run: git diff
-
   pylint:
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
@@ -64,20 +50,10 @@ jobs:
         # TODO #682
         nbqa pylint --unsafe-load-any-extension=y --disable=fixme,duplicate-code,invalid-name,trailing-whitespace,line-too-long,missing-function-docstring,wrong-import-position,missing-module-docstring,wrong-import-order,ungrouped-imports,no-member,too-many-locals,unnecessary-lambda-assignment $(git ls-files '*.ipynb')
 
-  devops:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.6
-        with:
-          submodules: recursive
-          fetch-depth: 0  # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/issues/480
-      - run: pip install -r tests/devops_tests/requirements.txt
-      - env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        run: pytest  ${{ env.pytest_options }} -k "not test_run_notebooks" tests/devops_tests
+
 
   nojit_and_codecov:
-    needs: [precommit, pylint, devops]
+    needs: [pylint]
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     env:
       NUMBA_DISABLE_JIT: 1