Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace appears to wrongly suggest you will see an "Everything looks good!" message

[jsoref]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/sharing-automations/creating-actions/publishing-actions-in-github-marketplace

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

If the labels in your metadata file contain any problems, you will see an error message. Address them by updating your metadata file. Once complete, you will see an "Everything looks good!" message.

I'm not sure if this still happens. I tried creating a test action and while I tripped over some of the other items, I didn't see "Everything looks good!"

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[nguyenalex836]

@jsoref Thank you for raising this issue! I'll get this triaged for review ✨ Our team will provide feedback regarding the best next steps for this issue - thanks for your patience! 💛

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This is a gentle bump for the docs team that this issue is waiting for technical review.

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This is a gentle bump for the docs team that this issue is waiting for technical review.

[subatoi]

Hi @jsoref, I've heard back from the Marketplace team and they've told us that nothing's wrong with the docs–if you remember what other items you tripped up on that you noted in this issue's description, I can pass the feedback to them. I realise that doesn't explain what happened in your case, but I'm unable to get a better outcome at this point.

For now I think the best course of action will be to close this issue, but certainly if you or anyone else spots the same discrepancy, feel free to add a new comment.

I'll leave this open to give you a chance to reply at your convenience—many thanks as ever for your help and support with our docs.

[jsoref]

@subatoi I just published https://github.com/marketplace/actions/musical-spoon-congenial-pancake

I started with a number of mistakes in the publication process (no tag, no title). when I finished it took me to https://github.com/check-spelling-sandbox/musical-spoon-congenial-pancake/releases/tag/v0.0.0 at no point did I see "Everything looks good!"

If you can show a video with "Everything looks good!", I'd accept the claim that the documentation is correct, otherwise, I firmly believe it's wrong as I have been unable to get it to say "Everything looks good!".

I did in publishing https://github.com/marketplace/actions/musical-spoon-congenial-pancake v0.0.1 temporarily invalidate the action.yml (by removing the mandatory name: field).

Beyond that, the text talks about labels:

If the labels in your metadata file contain any problems, you will see an error message.

But, nowhere in Metadata syntax for GitHub Actions does the word labels appear... So, even that seems likely to be incorrect.

I had to go a couple of rounds trying to decide which things to try to corrupt to prove that this screen never happens (I settled on the missing name: field, and not having a tag in the publishing screen).