OfBorg now uses Checks

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Hello!

OfBorg is now using the Checks API to report build statuses.

You can check out an example here: minio/minio-client: update by tilpner · Pull Request #51300 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

Here is the deal on how OfBorg will mark a PR:

  1. If a build succeeds, OfBorg will report the check as Succeeded.
  2. If a build times out or none of the attributes evaluate on the system, the report is marked as Cancelled
  3. If a build fails for any other reason, the report is marked as Neutral

This is so that no red X’s will ever appear due to build failures. If you see a red X, the PR must not be merged.

There are some future kinks to work out:

  1. Mark the Completed At properly instead of hard coding a while ago in
  2. Creating the check when the build is queued
  3. Updating the check when the build is started (and also linking to the live-streaming logs at this point)

But for the most part, it should be a big improvement over what was there. I’m really glad to make progress on this. I feel the live-streaming logs are a major, under-utilized feature of OfBorg simply because we couldn’t easily link to it before.

As a reminder, if you would like to support OfBorg’s infrastructure, I have a Patreon set up at https://www.patreon.com/ofborg. A specific “next” project, I am interested in purchasing some Apple hardware so that we can make remove the need for “trusted users”.

Thank you and have fun,
Graham

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This is so that no red X’s will ever appear due to build failures. If you see a red X, the PR must not be merged.

… unless you deduce and get another person to confirm the problem is in master or OfBorg

(which should not happen, but…)