Proposal: run lint, type checking and the test suite in CI

[Aureliolo]

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Feature type

Enhancement to Existing Feature

Feature Summary

Add CI gates that would catch mechanically-detectable defects and enforce tests before merge: run the existing pytest suites, add a type checker over awx/, and broaden the flake8 rule selection.

Select the relevant components

• UI
• API
• Docs
• Collection
• CLI
• Other

Steps to reproduce

PR #630 shipped a type error: the code calls .replace on the list returned by traceback.format_exception. A type checker (mypy / pyright / ty) flags it directly; flake8 with the current rule selection does no type inference and does not. Separately, PRs #630 and #631 both add tests that today run nowhere, since CI executes no test suite.

Current results

CI runs no lint beyond a narrow flake8 selection, no type checker, and no tests. A type error like #630 merges unnoticed, and newly added tests do not guard against future regressions.

Sugested feature result

Incrementally, as separate reviewable PRs:

1. Run the existing pytest suites in CI so tests like those in fix: prevent notification template render errors from crashing the error formatter #630 and fix: require superuser for the debug scheduler-trigger endpoints #631 guard against regressions. They pass locally in a few minutes.
2. A type checker over awx/, starting advisory then tightening per-module, which would have caught fix: prevent notification template render errors from crashing the error formatter #630.
3. Broaden the flake8 rule selection where it is low-noise.

Additional information

#631 is an authorization fix that automated tooling would not have caught; it is mentioned only because it also adds a test that needs CI to run. The concrete "would have been caught" case is #630 via type checking.

[Aureliolo]

And to be clear. i am more than happy to contribute some or all of these if you tell me what shape you would want or tooling.