Github action jobs triggered by different events

Question

My release pipeline in Github action has two jobs (1) Testing (2) Release

This is what I am aim to achieve:

The testing job of the release pipeline will be triggered by creating a pull-request, the release job of the pipeline will be rung when pull-request is merged

name: OC-API CD
on: 
  pull_request:
    types: [merged]
    branches: 
       - master

jobs:
  testing:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  ...

  release:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  ...

It seems all jobs has to be triggered by the same events via on,

(1) Is there any way that different job can be triggered by different events?

(2) How can I add dependency between testing and release, AKA, the release job is depend on the successfully runs the testing job

Answer 1

You can control each job by adding if, in your case it will be like this:

jobs:
  testing:
  if: ${{ github.event.action }} == 'opened'
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  ...

Keep in mind you have to add opened to a on: pull_request: types: array of course :)

For the second part you can add dependency using needs, like this:

jobs:
  testing:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  ...

  release:
  needs: testing
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  ...