Information in Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace might be wrong

[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

• Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace should suggest repositories should be thin #35436
• Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace appears to wrongly suggest Each repository must contain a single action #35437
• Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace appears to wrongly suggest Each repository must not contain any workflow files #35438
• Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace appears to wrongly suggest The action's metadata file (action.yml or action.yaml) must be in the root directory of the repository. #35439
• Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace appears to wrongly suggest you will see an "Everything looks good!" message #35440

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

[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! 💛

[nguyenalex836]

@jsoref Thanks again for raising this issue! Would you mind doing us a favor, and breaking each of the concerns here into a separate issue? This should allow for a smoother, more efficient review process for our writers and SMEs ✨

This should really include advice not to have 300mb of stuff in a release (github/codeql-action currently does this and it means that anyone using the action has to wait 6 seconds for it to download).

I'm not sure this is a real requirement... At the very least, the GitHub Actions organization violates this:

I didn't search (and I can't think of a way to search for this), but I don't think I can think of any repositories that don't have workflow files.

This is apparently false. While researching an earlier point, I found one action listed on the marketplace without a root level action.yml,
enricomarino/actions https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aenricomarino%2Factions%20path%3Aaction.yml&type=code

And, it works: https://github.com/Finastra/fds-angular/actions/runs/10681780031/job/29606154031#step:9:1 (there were other theoretical users, but I didn't find any recent workflow runs among them).

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!"

Let us know if you have any concerns with this 💛

[jsoref]

Done