Oh... i did miss the asf-site thing, David mentioned. 
So my proposal is not useful ;)

Am Mittwoch, dem 09.02.2022 um 14:32 +0000 schrieb Zowalla, Richard:
> Hi,
> 
> Our GitHub Actions already do the Style/RAT checks.
> 
> ASF Infra also have some concerns regarding GitHub actions [1] and
> discussed it on [email protected] multiple times. 
> 
> However, Jenkins is capable of committing changes (we do it for the
> generated tomee site) - so perhaps it could also be done for the main
> repo?
> 
> We could set up an additional job, which is triggered after a commit,
> which
> 
> (1) checks out the project
> (2) do a quick build w/o tests
> (3) generate the boms
> (4) commit and push if there is a change (we do sth similar with the
> tomee site every 12h)
> 
> Then we setup the subsequent jobs (quick, full) to trigger only after
> a
> successful "bom generation job".
> 
> Wouldn't that work?
> 
> Gruß
> Richard
> 
> [1] 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BUILDS/GitHub+Actions+status
> 
> Am Mittwoch, dem 09.02.2022 um 09:15 -0500 schrieb David Blevins:
> > The trick is that Apache doesn’t have any bot accounts that we
> > could
> > use to
> > do commits to master.  So there really isn’t any way to use
> > Jenkins,
> > GitHub
> > Actions, etc.
> > 
> > The limited functionality Apache does have for committing files is
> > for
> > website generation, but it is setup to only work for branches
> > called
> > “asf-site” (or something like that) and works from only one
> > specific
> > Jenkins node.
> > 
> > The best we could do is create a bot that made a PR one of us had
> > to
> > merge
> > and/or get this to be done in the build and we ensure we remember
> > to
> > commit
> > it. (We could potentially do both so there is a convenient backup
> > if
> > we
> > forget to do the commit ourselves before we push).
> > 
> > -David
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 8:51 AM Jean-Louis Monteiro <
> > [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > We have discussed many times with Richard on Slack mainly around
> > > this
> > > topic. But I wanted to discuss it over here and have some
> > > brainstorming.
> > > 
> > > We have had BOM files for quite a while. To avoid the pain to
> > > update and
> > > maintain them, David created a script to generate them. All good.
> > > 
> > > The problem comes when one is updating or adding or removing a
> > > dependency.
> > > And I must apologize because it happened to me pretty much every
> > > single
> > > time. Richard has been looking after the build and fixing my
> > > garbage by
> > > generating again the BOM files to commit them. Thanks for that.
> > > 
> > > We discussed an approach to generate them in the build so Jenkins
> > > is always
> > > happy. It works but it has bigger side effects in my opinion.
> > > 
> > > 1/ Jenkins does not commit and then it does not fix my garbage
> > > 2/ the snapshots the user uses don't reflect what the CI is
> > > testing
> > > which
> > > deserves the purpose.
> > > 3/ the mess is hidden and when cutting the release there is a
> > > risk
> > > for the
> > > BOM files to not be up to date
> > > 
> > > I think we should revert this and at least let the build to fail
> > > so
> > > we can
> > > fix it and maintain the BOM files.
> > > 
> > > I have also investigated Github actions. We could also create a
> > > couple of
> > > Github actions
> > > 
> > > - to generate the BOM files AND commit them to git if they
> > > changed.
> > > So they
> > > are always up to date and the CI system runs on what the user is
> > > using
> > > 
> > > - check file headers to make sure they have ASLv2 header. This is
> > > a
> > > common
> > > error and CI will fail with RAT/checkstyle/PMD in the sanity
> > > checks
> > > build
> > > 
> > > - do some updates on the website if needed
> > > 
> > > We could start with the BOM and look at the headers. They should
> > > be
> > > fairly
> > > easy to handle and bring some immediate value.
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Jean-Louis Monteiro
> > > http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro
> > > http://www.tomitribe.com
> > > 
-- 
Richard Zowalla, M.Sc.
Research Associate, PhD Student | Medical Informatics

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