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-name: Validate Otterdog Configuration
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  pull_request_target:
-    branches: [ main ]
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-  pull-requests: write
-
-jobs:
-  validate:
-    # do not run the workflow in the template repo itself
-    if: ${{ !contains (github.repository, '/.eclipsefdn-template') }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout eclipse-csi/otterdog
-        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
-        with:
-          repository: eclipse-csi/otterdog
-          path: otterdog
-
-      - name: Checkout EclipseFdn/otterdog-configs
-        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
-        with:
-          repository: EclipseFdn/otterdog-configs
-          path: otterdog-configs
-
-      # checkout the head ref of the PR
-      # NOTE: in general it is bad practice to check out the pull request HEAD for PRs originating from forked repos,
-      #       however, this validation workflow produces a diff between the changes in the PR with the base ref, thus
-      #       doing this is acceptable, see https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests/
-      - name: Checkout HEAD ref of the PR
-        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-          path: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
-
-      # checkout the base ref of the PR
-      - name: Checkout BASE ref of the PR (target branch)
-        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.base_ref }}
-          path: ${{ github.repository_owner }}-base
-
-      - name: Install jsonnet-bundler
-        run: |
-          go install -a github.com/jsonnet-bundler/jsonnet-bundler/cmd/jb@v0.5.1
-          echo $(go env GOPATH)/bin >> $GITHUB_PATH
-
-      - name: Install poetry
-        run: pipx install poetry
-
-      - name: Setup Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@0a5c61591373683505ea898e09a3ea4f39ef2b9c # v5.0.0
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.10'
-          cache: 'poetry'
-
-      - name: Install dependencies with poetry
-        run: |
-          poetry install --only=main
-        working-directory: otterdog
-
-      - name: Copy configuration from HEAD and BASE ref
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p orgs/${{ github.repository_owner }}
-          cp -r ../${{ github.repository_owner }}/otterdog/* orgs/${{ github.repository_owner }}
-          cp ../${{ github.repository_owner }}-base/otterdog/${{ github.repository_owner }}.jsonnet orgs/${{ github.repository_owner }}/${{ github.repository_owner }}.jsonnet-BASE 
-        working-directory: otterdog-configs
-
-      - name: Validate Otterdog Configuration and diff HEAD <-> BASE
-        id: validate
-        run: |
-          # use script to enable ansi color output
-          script -e -q /dev/null --command "../otterdog/otterdog.sh local-plan ${{ github.repository_owner }} -c otterdog.json --suffix=-BASE" | tee "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/diff-ansi.txt"
-          echo "VALIDATION_STATUS=${PIPESTATUS[0]}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          # filter out ansi escape sequences again, use sed as ansi2txt is not available
-          cat "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/diff-ansi.txt" | sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' | sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]+)([-+!])/\2\1/g' | sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]+)([~])/!\1/g' > "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/diff.txt"
-        working-directory: otterdog-configs
-
-      - name: Generate canonical diff
-        run: |
-          ../otterdog/otterdog.sh canonical-diff ${{ github.repository_owner }} -c otterdog.json | tee "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/canonical-diff-ansi.txt"
-          # filter out ansi escape sequences
-          cat "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/canonical-diff-ansi.txt" | sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' | sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]+)([-+!])/\2\1/g' | sed -E 's/^([[:space:]]+)([~])/!\1/g' > "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/canonical-diff.txt"
-        working-directory: otterdog-configs
-
-      # Add a comment to the pull request with the diff
-
-      - name: Generate comment
-        uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
-        with:
-          script: |
-            const commentText = 'Diff for ' + process.env.GITHUB_SHA + ':';
-            const canonicalCommentText = 'Canonical Diff for ' + process.env.GITHUB_SHA + ':';
-
-            const fs = require('fs');
-            const diff = fs.readFileSync(process.env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE + '/diff.txt').toString().trimEnd();
-            const canonicalDiff = fs.readFileSync(process.env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE + '/canonical-diff.txt').toString().trimEnd();
-
-            var body = "<details>\n<summary>" + commentText + "</summary>\n\n```diff\n" + diff + "\n```\n\n</details>\n" +
-                       "<details>\n<summary>" + canonicalCommentText + "</summary>\n\n```diff\n" + canonicalDiff + "\n```\n\n</details>";
-
-            fs.writeFileSync(process.env.GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY, body);
-            fs.writeFileSync(process.env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE + '/comment.txt', body);
-
-      - name: Attach comment to PR
-        uses: marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment@efaaab3fd41a9c3de579aba759d2552635e590fd # v2.8.0
-        with:
-          hide_and_recreate: true
-          hide_classify: "OUTDATED"
-          path: ${{ github.workspace }}/comment.txt
-
-      - name: Propagate validation exit status
-        run: |
-          exit ${{ steps.validate.outputs.VALIDATION_STATUS }}