ZIP files for Pull Requests are no longer made

[skorasaurus]

Description

In #26746 ; build tooling was adopted so that a zip file of Gutenberg for every Pull request changes were created for each pull request.

The zip contains the gutenberg plugin built and ready for use,

• This greatly lowers the barriers & obstacles for users to test out pull requests:
• git and extensive configuration is no longer needed

To test out a pull a request, a user downloads the zip in their plugins directory, extract the folder and files, and activate the plugin; just like any other plugin.

I've noticed for some time that these are no longer being generated
(examples: #40410 #40136 #36590 #33496

and hadn't found any issues stating why this was removed.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

1. Visit any open pull request
2. go towards bottom of pages where the builds, checks are occurring;
3. read that the build zip was skipped
   

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Environment info

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Please confirm that you have searched existing issues in the repo.

Yes

Please confirm that you have tested with all plugins deactivated except Gutenberg.

Yes

[glendaviesnz]

I am not sure why the jobs are showing as skipped on the likes of #40410, but the zip file is still available under the Checks tab:

zip.mp4

[talldan]

It's a bit confusing because there are multiple 'build plugin' jobs and some are skipped because they're only triggered as part of the actual release workflow. I'm not sure if there's a way to hide them given they're irrelevant for most PRs.

On all of those PRs linked there's still a 'Build Gutenberg Plugin Zip / Build Release Artifact (pull_request)' job that's required. It's near the bottom, and if you click 'Details' and then click 'Summary', the zip is available that way too:

Maybe there docs that can be updated to clarify this.

[skorasaurus]

I am not sure why the jobs are showing as skipped on the likes of #40410, but the zip file is still available under the Checks tab:
zip.mp4

Thanks @glendaviesnz ; I didn't look there. I don't know whether this feature (getting zips of pull requests for easy testing!)
has been documented anywhere or where the best place would be to document this; maybe @ryanwelcher or @annezazu would have ideas; otherwise, I'll close this.

[stevebab]

@skorasaurus , you are a blessing. Thank you, it works beautifully. I wish we could get this into a "Gutenberg Settings" feature at some point, but this is is exactly what most of my agency's workload requires.
Now to figure out how to disable the "Download" button by default!