Problem

The make manifests target in the Marketplace Operator’s Makefile is currently broken or not functioning as expected. It is not being executed or validated as part of the development workflow. This has led to issues such as broken PRs being merged, for example: https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-marketplace/pull/649

More info: https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C06KP34REFJ/p1753796207029969

Solution

• Investigate and fix the make manifests target to ensure it runs correctly and reliably generates the necessary manifests.

• Add a pre-merge validation step (e.g., CI check) to ensure that make manifests is executed and its output is validated for every PR.