Classifies two additional types of errors as ConfigurationErrors:

• Invalid config files
• Missing query files

Best reviewed commit-by-commit.

Risk assessment

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• Low risk: Changes are fully under feature flags, or have been fully tested and validated in pre-production environments and are highly observable, or are documentation or test only.

Which use cases does this change impact?

• Advanced setup - Impacts users who have custom workflows.
• Default setup - Impacts users who use default setup.
• Code Scanning - Impacts Code Scanning (i.e. analysis-kinds: code-scanning).
• Code Quality - Impacts Code Quality (i.e. analysis-kinds: code-quality).
• GHES - Impacts GitHub Enterprise Server.

How did/will you validate this change?

• Unit tests - I am depending on unit test coverage (i.e. tests in .test.ts files).
• End-to-end tests - I am depending on PR checks (i.e. tests in pr-checks).

If something goes wrong after this change is released, what are the mitigation and rollback strategies?

• Rollback - Change can only be disabled by rolling back the release or releasing a new version with a fix.

How will you know if something goes wrong after this change is released?

• Telemetry - I rely on existing telemetry or have made changes to the telemetry.
  • Dashboards - I will watch relevant dashboards for issues after the release. Consider whether this requires this change to be released at a particular time rather than as part of a regular release.
  • Alerts - New or existing monitors will trip if something goes wrong with this change.

Merge / deployment checklist

• Confirm this change is backwards compatible with existing workflows.
• Consider adding a changelog entry for this change.
• Confirm the readme and docs have been updated if necessary.