Prototype is at https://github.com/databricks/spark-pr-dashboard/pull/59
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Josh Rosen <rosenvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *TL;DR*: would anyone object if I wrote a script to auto-delete pull
> request comments from AmplabJenkins?
>
> Currently there are two bots which post Jenkins test result comments to
> GitHub, AmplabJenkins and SparkQA.
>
> SparkQA is the account which post the detailed Jenkins start and finish
> messages that contain information on which commit is being tested and which
> tests have failed. This bot is controlled via the dev/run-tests-jenkins
> script.
>
> AmplabJenkins is controlled by the Jenkins GitHub Pull Request Builder
> plugin. This bot posts relatively uninformative comments ("Merge build
> triggered", "Merge build started", "Merge build failed") that do not
> contain any links or details specific to the tests being run.
>
> It is technically non-trivial prevent these AmplabJenkins comments from
> being posted in the first place (see
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4216).
>
> However, as a short-term hack I'd like to deploy a script which
> automatically deletes these comments as soon as they're posted, with an
> exemption carved out for the "Can an admin approve this patch for testing?"
> messages. This will help to significantly de-clutter pull request
> discussions in the GitHub UI.
>
> If nobody objects, I'd like to deploy this script sometime in the next few
> days.
>
> (From a technical perspective, my script uses the GitHub REST API and
> AmplabJenkins' own OAuth token to delete the comments. The final
> deployment environment will most likely be the backend of
> http://spark-prs.appspot.com).
>
> - Josh
>
