Re: [edk2-devel] failed Pr

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 29 May 2023 at 18:45, Michael D Kinney
<michael.d.kinney@intel.com> wrote:
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> Hi Sean,
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> I see the “rerun” button on the “checks” page of GitHub from my login.
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> We have a mix of both Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions today, so I think it is important to see the “rerun” from GitHub view for Maintainers.
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Yes, that would be lovely.

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> This github page describes the feature, but not the permissions required.
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> https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/re-running-workflows-and-jobs
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> We currently have EDK II Maintainer Team set to “Triage Role” permissions.  From the table below, only “Write” and above are allowed to re-run.
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> https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-user-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/repository-roles-for-an-organization#permissions-for-each-role
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> “Write” permissions add a lot of options, so I think we should discuss tradeoffs in the next Tools/CI meeting.
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> One option is to add a bot based on a new label to request failed jobs to be re-run.  The bot can use a token with permissions to re-run.
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This would work for me - as long as I don't have to make changes to
the branch, I'm happy with whatever we come up with.