POC: Add built in steps to workflows #9743
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I imagine this interface change would require some more discussion and documentation, so I'm not looking to submit this, but wanted to send for discussion.
This change would support custom setup for kythe/codesearch indexing. It would unfortunately remove "automatic" injection of these steps, and require anyone using codesearch to inject boilerplate steps into their workflow config.
The main alternative that I can think of to this approach would be a separate "codesearch" top-level section in the workflow config that allowed specification of setup steps required for a kythe build, or maybe even just packages to install or a docker container to use. The adoption curve for that would be gentler - if no custom setup steps were required, kythe & CS indexing would continue to "just work" when codesearch was enabled.
This is based on GH Actions
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: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idstepsuses