BTW. the Action from Tobiasz is already out there :) - he just adds the
comment/check option now:
https://github.com/TobKed/label-when-approved-action/ :D

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 8:27 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think having a test/check status they shows in progress until approved
> is actually a good thing - it makes it more explicit that there are more
> tests to come.
>
> On 27 October 2020 07:22:00 GMT, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> We are close to the finish, but we've hit some GH limitations with
>> Tobiasz. It turned out that the re-run workflow API (
>> https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/rest/reference/actions#re-run-a-workflow)
>> has an undocumented feature :) - it only allows to re-run failed runs, but
>> it does not work on successful ones. This only works for manual re-runs
>> from the UI, but not via API. This is a requested feature (
>> https://github.community/t/is-it-possible-to-manually-force-an-action-workflow-to-be-re-run/2127/22)
>> but we cannot wait for it.
>>
>> We thought about it and slept over it and since we cannot wait for it we
>> thought about a bit different approach which we are implementing:
>>
>> When PR gets its approval, it will automatically get the "okay to test"
>> label and a comment inviting to rebasing the PR or re-running the tests and
>> explaining why.
>>
>> We will also experiment with adding an extra "check" that will mark the
>> PR as still "in-progress" in this case so that it is obvious that the PR is
>> not yet "completely" tested. Later we will skip all that for the doc-only
>> PRs that do not require tests at all.
>>
>> Let us know if you have any thoughts about it.
>>
>> J,
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:28 PM Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am happy with "okay to test" / "run tests" .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 10:13 Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kamil - "Ready for review" is not good - it must have been reviewed
>>>> already because it has at least one approval.
>>>>
>>>> Ash - I am ok with "okay to test" :). Hard to mistake it with
>>>> anything else and serves the purpose well :)
>>>>
>>>> Any other opinions/voices :)? I already have the PRs to enable it in
>>>> review, and we work with Tobiasz on auto-labeling action so hopefully
>>>> today/tomorrow we can get it up and running.
>>>>
>>>> J
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:08 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How about "okay to test" -- that's often the "command" that people use
>>>>> for test approval (thinking of Jenkins Github integration, where you can
>>>>> say "ready to test" to do this exact purpose).
>>>>>
>>>>> -ash
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 26 2020, at 10:06 am, Kamil Breguła <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> what do you think about "Ready for review"?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 11:04 Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:53 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is "ready to merge" also going to automatically merge if tests are
>>>>> green?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not at all. It was never the intention. Committers still need to merge
>>>>> it manually. The difference is that you will see the "Ready to Marge" 
>>>>> label
>>>>> and "green" (hopefully) merge button, you will know that the "full set" of
>>>>> tests was successful.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am also not sure if "Ready to Merge" is best name though. I've been
>>>>> thinking about this but  think it could be simply "All test", "Full test
>>>>> set" ...  or simply maybe "Ready for all tests"*.*
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the last one is best ("Ready for all tests")
>>>>>
>>>>> J.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it shouldn't unless we also remove that label on a new push to
>>>>> the branch - consider this:
>>>>>
>>>>>    - PR is reviewed and approved and a simple change, committer
>>>>>    reviews it and gives it an approval; tests currently running
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Label is applied
>>>>>    - While tests are running PR author pushes malicious code
>>>>>    - Tests for this new push pass and it's automatically merged.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Because of this I think "ready to merge" is actually the wrong name as
>>>>> it conveys extra meaning that we want to avoid. (And I also don't want to
>>>>> remove approvals when pushing, there are many many cases where it's just a
>>>>> small change requested, and we give approval with "make this change; I'm
>>>>> pre-emptively approving it")
>>>>>
>>>>> -ash
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 24 2020, at 8:49 pm, Daniel Imberman <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think ready to merge makes more sense
>>>>>
>>>>> via Newton Mail
>>>>> <https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=dx&cv=10.0.51&pv=10.15.6&source=email_footer_2>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:13 PM, Jarek Potiuk <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Some short update - seems like we can get 50% 60% saving in job usage
>>>>> by the "unapproved PRs". We are progressing with implementation :D.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 10:55 AM Jarek Potiuk <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> FYI. We found out with Tobiasz, that it will be a bit better and if we
>>>>> add "*Approved*" label in the PR that the workflow will automatically
>>>>> set when the issue gets approved.
>>>>>
>>>>> This way we have state of the PR approval (we know when it changes)
>>>>> and know that we should re-run last "small matrix" successful run when the
>>>>> label changes to "Approved".
>>>>>
>>>>> This will also be an additional indication to committers in case of
>>>>> queues and delays we se. It might be that the "small" matrix run is 
>>>>> already
>>>>> successful, the PR gets approved but the "full matrix build" is delayed 
>>>>> due
>>>>> to queuing. Such PR will have green "merge" button and might get merged by
>>>>> mistake - but it will not have the "Approved" label yet. Setting the label
>>>>> and re-running the build will happen at the same time.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I start thinking this label should be named differently - how
>>>>> about "*Ready to merge*" maybe? Or maybe other ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> J.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 1:10 AM Daniel Imberman <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> +1000!
>>>>>
>>>>> via Newton Mail
>>>>> <https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=dx&cv=10.0.51&pv=10.15.6&source=email_footer_2>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:22 AM, Jarek Potiuk <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Tobiasz :). fantastic.
>>>>>
>>>>> I prepared a very short and simple design doc
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/16rwyCfyDpKWN-DrLYbhjU0B1D58T1RFYan5ltmw4DQg/edit#
>>>>>  where
>>>>> we can collaborate.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also added you as collaborator to
>>>>> https://github.com/potiuk/get-workflow-origin that we already use,
>>>>> and I think you can update the "get workflow origin" plugin to include
>>>>> status of the PR in the output of the action (ore maybe we find out that 
>>>>> we
>>>>> already have what we need in GitHub context).
>>>>>
>>>>> I will take a look at finding out how/if we can trigger the "full
>>>>> build" automatically when approval status changes from "Not approved" to
>>>>> "Approved".
>>>>>
>>>>> J.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:20 PM Tobiasz Kędzierski <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jarek.
>>>>>
>>>>> sounds good to me. I am happy to help you as much as I can with it.
>>>>>
>>>>> BR
>>>>> Tobiasz
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:06 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> *TLDR; I thought about it a bit and I have a proposal on how to solve
>>>>> it even better - one that can be implemented over the weekend (I volunteer
>>>>> :) ) and that can be very easily shared and adopted by the other ASF
>>>>> projects so that we all collectively decrease the strain on Github 
>>>>> Actions.*
>>>>>
>>>>> This is in parallel to our efforts on having self-hosted workers of
>>>>> course, but I think it will be needed anyway. Let me put it in a bit of
>>>>> context
>>>>>
>>>>> *Problem statement:*
>>>>>
>>>>> * the root cause of the problem is that we are competing with many
>>>>> other projects of ASF for the 180 jobs. I have started the discussion in
>>>>> [email protected] about this:
>>>>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1708881f52adbdae722afb8fea16b23325b739b254b60890e72375e1%40%3Cbuilds.apache.org%3E
>>>>>  and
>>>>> it's clear all ASF projects using GA have the same problem and compete
>>>>> against each other for the jobs.
>>>>> * if we decrease the strain on our side, this is not solving the
>>>>> problem long term. We keep on doing it already, and we already decrease a
>>>>> lot of strain, but other projects from ASF increase their strain in the
>>>>> meantime (Apache Beam, Skywalking, and few other projects are becoming
>>>>> heavy GitHub Actions users).
>>>>> * in all the projects that I looked at, we have the same root cause.
>>>>> Matrix strategy of builds causes enormous strain on Github Actions if the
>>>>> whole matrix is run for all PRs. We are going to make it works sustainably
>>>>> only if we come up with an easy solution, that can be applied to all those
>>>>> projects.
>>>>> * I think the comment-based PR triggering process is complex and
>>>>> cumbersome to follow. It puts a LOT more effort on the committers because
>>>>> they not only have to review and comment on the PRs but also make 
>>>>> decisions
>>>>> that those PRs are ready for "full build". This is a lot of unnecessary
>>>>> effort and complicated process that many of the ASF projects will not like
>>>>> to adopt
>>>>>
>>>>> *Proposed Solution:*
>>>>>
>>>>> *Add an easy way to limit the matrix strategy to one "default" combo
>>>>> for PRs THAT HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED BY COMMITTERS YET*
>>>>>
>>>>> This can be easily done with Github Actions workflows - no need to
>>>>> write a bot for this.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Some details:*
>>>>>
>>>>> * Custom GitHub Action (generic) that checks if the PRs are approved
>>>>> by Committers (and no "disapprovals"). The action would produce an output
>>>>> -> "Approved", "Not approved". The output could be used to determine the
>>>>> matrix strategy scope (in our case we already have support for dynamic
>>>>> matrix strategy that I added a few weeks ago - so it's just a matter of
>>>>> wiring the output in).
>>>>> * Very small workflow with the same GithubAction run on
>>>>> "pull_request_target" event. That workflow would effective "observe" the
>>>>> PR, and when the status changes from "not approved" to "approved", it
>>>>> triggers a PR build (with the "full matrix strategy" this time because the
>>>>> PR will be already approved). This seems to be entirely possible. This
>>>>> "pull_request_target" workflow - similarly to "workflow_run" runs with a
>>>>> "write" access token and uses a "main branch" workflow version and it 
>>>>> could
>>>>> easily trigger a rerun of the last PR build in such case.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Benefits:*
>>>>>
>>>>> - I think I could write such an action over the coming weekend (happy
>>>>> to collaborate with anyone on that). I will first search if someone has
>>>>> done something similar of course because maybe it can be done faster this
>>>>> way, but I am quite confident after writing my
>>>>> https://github.com/potiuk/cancel-workflow-runs which we already use
>>>>> to limit the strain that it is doable in a day/two
>>>>> - no need to change the process we have - we continue working as we
>>>>> did and simply "approved" PRs will be the full matrix strategy ones but 
>>>>> the
>>>>> "not-approved-ones" will run a limited version of the checks.
>>>>> - no way to accidentally submit a breaking PR - when the committer
>>>>> approves the PR that has not been approved before, the PR build will be
>>>>> re-run with the "full matrix strategy" and not mergeable until it finishes
>>>>> - last-but-not-least: we can propose (and help) other ASF projects to
>>>>> use the action in their own GitHub Actions. It will not be changing
>>>>> anyone's process - which makes it super-easy to adopt and I can even turn
>>>>> it into a "recommended solution" by Apache Infra - similarly as Airflow's
>>>>> CI architecture is a recommended solution already for the integration of 
>>>>> GA
>>>>> with DockerHub
>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Github+Actions+to+DockerHub
>>>>>
>>>>> WDYT?
>>>>>
>>>>> J
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 7:59 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it's a good idea, but I'd augment it a bit. A better option
>>>>> will be to run all test types but
>>>>> for only one chosen combination of "Python + DB type + DB version".
>>>>>
>>>>> I often don't even look at the PR until the tests pass and this would
>>>>> be much better this way.
>>>>> And often people have slower/small machines so they submit the PR to
>>>>> see if they have not
>>>>> broken any other tests. This is much, much easier than doing it
>>>>> locally - because then in one
>>>>> "fire&forget" you can run static, doc, unit tests, integration, and
>>>>> Kubernetes ones,. And it's a valid
>>>>> thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, we have to make sure that such PR does not become "Green" before
>>>>> all the tests are run.
>>>>> This might be rather problematic as Github does not yet have a "
>>>>> manual" Approval step in
>>>>> Github Actions (it's coming in Q4:
>>>>> https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/99).
>>>>>
>>>>> We have many tests and already we hit a bug a few times, where not all
>>>>> tests have yet started
>>>>> and we've merged such PR. I can imagine it will happen more and more
>>>>> often if all PRs will
>>>>> only run a subset of tests. It will be very easy to make that mistake
>>>>> because even if we run a subset of
>>>>> those tests, we have so many jobs that you cannot see them all in the
>>>>> GitHub UI.
>>>>>
>>>>> So we will have to have a check that fails the PR but marks it somehow
>>>>> as "Ready for review" for example adding
>>>>> a label "Ready for review" when the subset of tests succeeds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, this might not be needed (or less important) if we implement:
>>>>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/10507 "Selective Tests"
>>>>> for which I have an open PR. They will give much bigger improvements -
>>>>> because, in the vast majority of cases, the tests will take
>>>>> very little time - giving feedback
>>>>> about relevant tests in a few minutes rather than half-an-hour. We can
>>>>> also combine those two.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that I managed to finish some of the stuff that I thought
>>>>> will take more time, so I might come back to it next week
>>>>> if it goes as well as I planned.
>>>>>
>>>>> J.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:57 AM Daniel Imberman <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m not too worried about that. I think people would learn pretty
>>>>> quickly. It hasn’t been an issue for the kubernetes community so I can’t
>>>>> imagine it being an issue for us. End-of-day, we only have a limited 
>>>>> amount
>>>>> of compute power and this will increase the speed we merge the PR’s that
>>>>> have passed basic code quality checks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 2:19 PM, Tomasz Urbaszek <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I can agree. Especially with flaky tests, some contributors
>>>>> may be confused that some of the tests don't work on CI but work 
>>>>> locally...
>>>>>
>>>>> Checking the code quality is good first step. Once there's a review we
>>>>> can start tests on CI.
>>>>>
>>>>> On the other hand, I can see people asking for starting the tests or
>>>>> being even more confused why some PRs have more CI builds than others...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Tomek
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:29 PM Daniel Imberman <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> With the recent uptick in airflow contribution and pull requests, I
>>>>> have a proposal that I hope will ensure that we do not find ourselves in a
>>>>> CI backlog hell. I noticed that on the Kubernetes project, pull requests 
>>>>> do
>>>>> not run integration test until a committer submits a "ready to test"
>>>>> command to the CI bot. This step can prevent draft PRs or un-reviewed PRs
>>>>> from taking github CI resources. It is worth noting that with breeze's
>>>>> docker based testing system, users have the exact same testing 
>>>>> capabilities
>>>>> locally as they would on our CI.
>>>>>
>>>>> I propose that we allow unverified PR's to run basic and static tests,
>>>>> but not perform the full test suite or integration test without first 
>>>>> being
>>>>> reviewed.
>>>>>
>>>>> What does everyone think?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Jarek Potiuk
>>>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>>>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Jarek Potiuk
>>>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>>>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Jarek Potiuk
>>>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>>>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Jarek Potiuk
>>>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>>>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Jarek Potiuk
>>>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>>>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Jarek Potiuk
>>>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>>>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Jarek Potiuk
>>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>>>
>>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jarek Potiuk
>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>>
>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>>
>>

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