Provide more visibility for the article on skipped but required checks

[toonn]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

Handling skipped but required checks

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

This article is really hard to find. Maybe it can be part of the normal Actions documentation here. I've been looking for a way to do this for months now and it didn't turn up until I asked someone else whether they knew if it was even possible.

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[fejalpathan]

Helo word hi im new user for the github please help me
Why this web use

[ramyaparimi]

@toonn
Thanks so much for opening an issue! I'll triage this for the team to take a look 👀

[david-bain]

While you are at it can you please check the validity of the content or if there is a bug in the implementation?
I had a check that was skipped due to a needs job failing and the skip counted as a pass for merging, not what it said in the document. For clarity, the needs referred to a matrix job where some of the instances failed and I could reliably replicate this bug.

[skedwards88]

Thank you for opening this issue! I agree that it would be good to make this article more discoverable. I suggest adding a link to Troubleshooting required status checks from Triggering a workflow, where we introduce filtering. You or anyone is welcome to open a PR to address this.