Workflow with pull_request_review trigger also starts on individual PR reply comment

[Piedone]

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In this workflow, these are the triggers:

  workflow_dispatch:
  pull_request_review:
    types: [submitted]
  push:
    paths-ignore:
      - '**/*.md'
      - 'mkdocs.yml'
      - 'src/docs/**/*'
    branches: [ main, release/** ]

pull_request_review correctly triggers when a PR review is submitted. However, IMO incorrectly it also triggers when one adds a reply comment to a PR conversations, but without submitting a review.

E.g. I added this comment, which triggered this run, and when I added this comment, this run started. In both cases, I did not submit a review, i.e. I did not click this button:

I was just adding comments, directly and immediately, while there were no review comments pending.

The docs are explicit that this is the behavior of pull_request_review_comment instead, so this seems to be a bug to me.

[dcaayushd]

[Piedone]

Thank you!

1. pull_request_review_comment is specifically the opposite of what I need.
2. This is my bug report here. I followed the documented procedure to raise a bug report for GitHub Actions. If I don't get any reply from GitHub for some time here, I'll also try to get in touch with their support.
3. I don't think runners have anything to do with the triggers. GitHub calls the runners when a workflow is triggered, so at that point it's already too late.

Also, not to offend you, but did you write your answer with a LLM? Because it feels very much like it, including that while it's long, detailed, and plausibly sounding, it doesn't really help. I appreciate the intent, though, and thank you.