Skipmerge creates forward-ports before the source PR is even merged.
- In a break from the norm, skipmerge will create forwardports even in
the face of conflicts.
- It will also not *detach* pull requests in case of conflicts, this
is so the source PR can be updated and the update correctly cascades
through the stack (likewise for any intermediate PR though *that*
will detach as usual).
Note that this doesn't really look at outstandings, especially as they
were recently updated, so it might need to be fixed up in case of
freakout, but I feel like that should not be too much of an issue, the
authors will just get their FW reminders earlier than usual. If that's
a hassle we can always update the reminder job to ignore forward ports
whose source is not merged I guess.
Fixes#418
Not entirely sure about just allowing any PR author to set the merge
method as it gives them a lot more control over commits (via the PR
message), and I'm uncertain about the ramifications of doing that.
However if the author of the PR is classified as an
employee (via a provisioned user linked to the github account) then
allow it. Should not be prone to abuse at least.
Fixes#1036
Previously PR descriptions were displayed as raw text in the PR
dashboard. While not wrong per se, this was pretty ugly and not always
convenient as e.g. links had to be copied by hand.
Push descriptions through pymarkdown for rendering them, with a few
customisations:
- Enabled footnotes & tables & fenced code blocks because GFM has
that, this doesn't quite put pymarkdown's base behaviour on par with
gfm (and py-gfm ultimately gave up on that effort moving to just
wrap github's own markdown renderer instead).
- Don't allow raw html because too much of a hassle to do it
correctly, and very few people ever do it (mostly me I think).
- Added a bespoke handler / renderer for github-style references.
Note: uses positional captures because it started that way and named
captures are not removed from that sequence so mixing and matching
is not very useful, plus python does not support identically named
groups (even exclusive) so all 4 repo captures and all 3 issue
number captures would need different names...
- And added a second bespoke handler for our own opw/issue references
leading to odoo.com, that's something we can't do via github[^1] so
it's a genuine value-add.
Fixes#889
[^1]: github can do it (though possibly not with the arbitrary
unspecified nonsense I got when I tried to list some of the
reference styles, some folks need therapy), but it's not available
on our plan
Not sure it's going to be useful but it's hard to know if we can't
test it. The intent is mostly the ability to prioritize throughput (or
attempt to) during high-load events, if we can favour staging N
new batches over a split's N/2 we might be able to merge more crap.
But maybe not, we'll see, either way now it's here and seems to more
or less work.
Fixes#798
Because the mergebot crons are on such a tight scheduling, and just
them finding out they have nothing to do can take a while, disabling
them can be a chore. Disabling staging via the project is much less
likely to cause issues as the projects don't normally (or ever?) get
exclusively locked, so they can generally be written to at any moment.
Furthermore, if we ever get in a situation where we have multiple
active projects (not really the case currently, we have multiple
projects but only one is really active) it's less disruptive to
disable stagings on a single specific project.
Fixes#860
This commit revisits the commands set in order to make it more
regular, and limit inconsistent command-sets, although it includes
pseudo-command aliases for common tasks now removed from the core set.
Hard Errors
===========
The previous iteration of the commands set would ignore any
non-command term in a command line. This has been changed to hard
error (and ignoring the entire thing) if any command is unknown or
invalid.
This fixes inconsistent / unexpected interpretations where a user
sends a command, then writes a novel on the same line some words of
which happen to *also* be commands, leading to merge states they did
not expect. They should now be told to fuck off.
Priority Restructuring
----------------------
The numerical priority system was pretty messy in that it confused
"staging priority" (in ways which were not entirely straightforward)
with overrides to other concerns.
This has now being split along all the axis, with separate command
subsets for:
- staging prioritisation, now separated between `default`, `priority`,
and `alone`,
- `default` means PRs are picked by an unspecified order when
creating a staging, if nothing better is available
- `priority` means PRs are picked first when staging, however if
`priority` PRs don't fill the staging the rest will be filled with
`default`, this mode did not previously exist
- `alone` means the PRs are picked first, before splits, and only
`alone` PRs can be part of the staging (which usually matches the
modename)
- `skipchecks` overrides both statuses and approval checks, for the
batch, something previously implied in `p=0`, but now
independent. Setting `skipchecks` basically makes the entire batch
`ready`.
For consistency this also sets the reviewer implicitly: since
skipchecks overrides both statuses *and approval*, whoever enables
this mode is essentially the reviewer.
- `cancel` cancels any ongoing staging when the marked PR becomes
ready again, previously this was also implied (in a more restricted
form) by setting `p=0`
FWBot removal
=============
While the "forwardport bot" still exists as an API level (to segregate
access rights between tokens) it has been removed as an interaction
point, as part of the modules merge plan. As a result,
fwbot stops responding
----------------------
Feedback messages are now always sent by the mergebot, the
forward-porting bot should not send any message or notification
anymore.
commands moved to the merge bot
-------------------------------
- `ignore`/`up to` simply changes bot
- `close` as well
- `skipci` is now a choice / flag of an `fw` command, which denotes
the forward-port policy,
- `fw=default` is the old `ci` and resets the policy to default,
that is wait for the PR to be merged to create forward ports, and
for the required statuses on each forward port to be received
before creating the next
- `fw=skipci` is the old `skipci`, it waits for the merge of the
base PR but then creates all the forward ports immediately (unless
it gets a conflict)
- `fw=skipmerge` immediately creates all the forward ports, without
even waiting for the PR to be merged
This is a completely new mode, and may be rather broken as until
now the 'bot has always assumed the source PR had been merged.
approval rework
---------------
Because of the previous section, there is no distinguishing feature
between `mergebot r+` = "merge this PR" and `forwardbot r+` = "merge
this PR and all its parent with different access rights".
As a result, the two have been merged under a single `mergebot r+`
with heuristics attempting to provide the best experience:
- if approving a non-forward port, the behavior does not change
- else, with review rights on the source, all ancestors are approved
- else, as author of the original, approves all ancestors which descend
from a merged PR
- else, approves all ancestors up to and including the oldest ancestor
to which we have review rights
Most notably, the source's author is not delegated on the source or
any of its descendants anymore. This might need to be revisited if it
provides too restrictive.
For the very specialized need of approving a forward-port *and none of
its ancestors*, `review=` can now take a comma (`,`) separated list of
pull request numbers (github numbers, not mergebot ids).
Computed State
==============
The `state` field of pull requests is now computed. Hopefully this
makes the status more consistent and predictable in the long run, and
importantly makes status management more reliable (because reference
datum get updated naturally flowing to the state).
For now however it makes things more complicated as some of the states
have to be separately signaled or updated:
- `closed` and `error` are now separate flags
- `merge_date` is pulled down from forwardport and becomes the
transition signal for ready -> merged
- `reviewed_by` becomes the transition signal for approval (might be a
good idea to rename it...)
- `status` is computed from the head's statuses and overrides, and
*that* becomes the validation state
Ideally, batch-level flags like `skipchecks` should be on, well, the
batch, and `state` should have a dependency on the batch. However
currently the batch is not a durable / permanent member of the system,
so it's a PR-level flag and a messy pile.
On notable change is that *forcing* the state to `ready` now does that
but also sets the reviewer, `skipchecks`, and overrides to ensure the
API-mediated readying does not get rolled back by e.g. the runbot
sending a status.
This is useful for a few types of automated / programmatic PRs
e.g. translation exports, where we set the state programmatically to
limit noise.
recursive dependency hack
-------------------------
Given a sequence of PRs with an override of the source, if one of the
PRs is updated its descendants should not have the override
anymore. However if the updated PR gets overridden, its descendants
should have *that* override.
This requires some unholy manipulations via an override of `modified`,
as the ORM supports recursive fields but not recursive
dependencies (on a different field).
unconditional followup scheduling
---------------------------------
Previously scheduling forward-port followup was contigent on the FW
policy, but it's not actually correct if the new PR is *immediately*
validated (which can happen now that the field is computed, if there
are no required statuses *or* all of the required statuses are
overridden by an ancestor) as nothing will trigger the state change
and thus scheduling of the fp followup.
The followup function checks all the properties of the batch to port,
so this should not result on incorrect ports. Although it's a bit more
expensive, and will lead to more spam.
Previously this would not happen because on creation of a PR the
validation task (commit -> PR) would still have to execute.
Misc Changes
============
- If a PR is marked as overriding / canceling stagings, it now does
so on retry not just when setting initially.
This was not handled at all previously, so a PR in P0 going into
error due to e.g. a non-deterministic bug would be retried and still
p=0, but a current staging would not get cancelled. Same when a PR
in p=0 goes into error because something was failed, then is updated
with a fix.
- Add tracking to a bunch of relevant PR fields.
Post-mortem analysis currently generally requires going through the
text logs to see what happened, which is annoying.
There is a nondeterminism / inconsistency in the tracking which
sometimes leads the admin user to trigger tracking before the bot
does, leading to the staging tracking being attributed to them
during tests, shove under the carpet by ignoring the user to whom
that tracking is attributed.
When multiple users update tracked fields in the same transaction
all the changes are attributed to the first one having triggered
tracking (?), I couldn't find why the admin sometimes takes over.
- added and leveraged support for enum-backed selection fields
- moved variuous fields from forwardport to runbot_merge
- fix a migration which had never worked and which never run (because
I forgot to bump the version on the module)
- remove some unnecessary intermediate de/serialisation
fixes#673, fixes#309, fixes#792, fixes#846 (probably)
Currently, once a source PR has been merged it's not possible to set
or update a limit, which can be inconvenient (e.g. people might have
forgotten to set it, or realise after the fact that setting one is not
useful, or might realise after the fact that they should *unset* it).
This PR relaxes that constraint (which is not just a relaxation as it
requires a bunch of additional work and validation), it should now be
possible to:
- update the limit to any target, as long as that target is at or
above the current forwardport tip's
- with the exception of a tip being forward ported, as that can't be
cancelled
- resume a forward port stopped by a previously set limit (just
increase it to whatever)
- set a limit from any forward-port PR
- set a limit from a source, post-merge
The process should also provide pretty chatty feedback:
- feedback on the source and closest root
- feedback about adjustments if any (e.g. setting the limit to B but
there's already a forward port to C, the 'bot should set the limit
to C and tell you that it happened and why)
Fixes#506
The `statuses` field of a staging is always "live" because it's a
computed non-stored field. This is an issue when a staging finishes in
whatever state, then someone gets new statuses sent on one of the head
commits, either by rebuilding (part of) the staging or by just using
the same commit for one of their branches.
This makes the reporting of the main dashboard confusing, as one might
look at a failed staging and see all the required statuses
successful. It also makes post-mortem analysis more complicated as the
logs have to be trawled for what the statuses used to be (and they
don't always tell).
Solve this by storing a snapshot of the statuses the first time a
staging moves away from `pending`, whether it's to success or failure.
Fixes#667
In the branch lists of stagings, the timestamps in the left column and
the labels in the data cells can not be selected, because they're
buttons and anyway bootstrap explicitly sets
.btn {
...
user-select: none;
}
This can be frustrating, as timestamps and labels are useful
information to cross-reference, the ability to copy them is
convenient.
Custom-set the reverse via our own CSS.
Fixes#668
Partially revert 0c882fc0df
This turns out to be more bane than boon, as it breaks forward-port
chains and confuses people (despite the message). Update notification
message and don't close the PR anymore.
While at it, disable any pending staging on the branch being deactivated.
Fixes#654
Currently deactivating a branch kinda leaves users in the dark, with
little way to know what has happened aside from inferring it from the
branch having disappeared from the main dashboard.
- surface the state of the branch in the PR dashboard (also surface
the target branch at all so users can see if their PR is targeted
as they expect as far as the mergebot is concerned)
- close & notify every PR to a branch being deactivated
- cancel any current staging to the branch (as a consequence of the
above)
Closes#632
The previous version of the code assumed `pr['body']` is always a
string, which is not correct, when the PR body is emptied the body
itself is removed (its value is `None`).
Add a case for this in the PR edition test, and avoid blowing up (or
adding empty newlines) when the PR body is empty. For PR creation this
issue was fixed in c2db5659d8 but
apparently I missed that the exact same issue occurs just a few lines
above.
Also turns out github does *not* send change information when the body
is updated from (or to?) `None`, so don't even bother with that, just
check every time if the overall message has been updated.
Fixes#629
It's likely that the PR pages are seen more commonly than the
dashboard by most users, so add alerts there in case users wonder
what's happening.
Fixes#580
Old messages were quite inconsistent in their pinging of the PR author
and reviewer.
Reviewed messages (probably missed some but...) and try to more
consistently ping when the feedback requires some sort of action in
order to proceed.
Fixes#592
A few fixes and improvements after testing the feature:
- ensure the provisioned users are created as internal (not portal)
- assume oauth is installed and just crash if it's not
- handle a user not having an email (ignore)
- return value from json handler, otherwise JsonRequest sends no
payload which is *weird*
Stagings would be cancelled automatically if the PR's commits were
updated, but not if the target (base) was changed, even though that
has a drastic impact on staging.
Add hooks to unstage PRs if their base is updated, or if their message
is updated and relevant to staging (merge or rebase-merge methods).
Fixes#604
- code in the various menus added over time through the UI (queues,
configuration, ...)
- update / improve PR layout a tick
- fix "outstanding forward ports" count on the dashboard
- improve hover title / help on dashboard
- add date of last modification (usually date of success / failure)
- make casing more coherent (everything lowercase)
- add explicit note that UTC date on staged at label is staged at datetime
- rediscover yet again that the staging information is when hovering
on the staging *except the staged at label*
- improve `PullRequest.unstage` to always insert the PR at the start of the
reason when cancelling the staging, for clarity / traceability
Closes#560, closes#609
* Adds a changelog page, linked from the main, with content
automatically loaded from the source. To avoid conflicts, each entry
is its own file and entries are grouped by the month during which
the update will (probably) be deployed
* The last group (most likely "last update") doesn't have a title, the
rest do.
* Add changelog entries from the last update so it's not too empty.
* Also update the layout for the alerts a bit: remove bottom margin to
reduce loss of whitespace.
