In some circumstances, a commit is created from scratch with only a hash
for sole information. This is not very convenient and can lead to issues
that may be difficult to investigate.
With this commit, when creating this kind of commit object, we try to
get commit informations from git repo.
When exporting a commit, the commit date is used in the `tar` command to
set the date of the exported folder. On the other hand it happens that a
commit is not found in the database and should be quickly created on the
fly. e.g.: with the `_get` method. In this case, if the commit needs to
be exported later, the method fails and may break a runbot build.
It happened with a custom python step.
- clean thread username
- allow to write on params for debug (was mainly usefull to forbid it
at the beginning)
- imrpove some guidelines about method and actions naming/ ordering
- move some code for a cleaner organisation.
- remove some useless request.env.user (not useful anymore)
When configuring a custom trigger on a bundle by using the wizard, the
child extra params field is often too small to display all the
parameters.
e.g., specify two long test-tags as it's often the case for
multi-builds.
With this commit, the field span over 4 columns.
The runbot settings view is a bit messy and the 16.0 upgrade added mess
on the existing one.
This commit is an attempt to make it a bit clearer and cleaner.
This commit will replace the symlink used for upgrade by the
upgrade-path.
The symlink was used before because old version does not support upgrade
path, but the decision was taken to now limit the testing to version
suporting upgrade paths in order to be able to support utils in another
repository latter.
When trying to open a linked error or an error from the history, the
object is opened in a useless modal. With this commit, the object is
opened in a regular form view.
If a branch `foo` is disabled, then `tmp.foo` and `staging.foo` become
unnecessary (with #247 fixed the tmp refs are not used for creating
stagings anymore, but for now they're still used for the "safety
dance" of merging a successful staging into the corresponding
mainline).
Fixes#605
Per the Github webhook documentation:
1. sha1 signatures are deprecated, github recommends sha256 (though
that's unlikely to be a concern anyway), and dummy-central supports
both so it should be no issue.
> If possible, we recommend that you use the x-hub-signature-256
> header for improved security.
2. Non-ascii secrets are supported and should be utf8-encoded to
compute signatures... that's not actually documented as github docs
only mention payload encoding but it seems to make sense anyway.
Also improve the warning message by replacing the signature (which is
useless) by the delivery id (which could allow introspecing the hook
or something).
Currently a user is not notified that the parent of a detached PR
needs to be independently approved and may miss that information. Add
a notification to *that* PR as well.
Fixes#788
The github API has gotten a lot more constraining (with rate
restrictions being newly enforced or added somewhat out of nowhere),
and as importantly a lot less reliable. So move the staging process
off of github and locally, similar to the forward porting
process (whose repo cache is being reused for this).
Fixes#247
If the primary email is made public, it is returned directly as part
of the /users endpoint, in which case we don't need to fetch it via
/user/emails.
Also improve error messages, and fix the incorrect checks on the
existence of the github name and email. And allow manually updating
both via the project form.
Probably less necessary than for the regular staging stuff, but might
as well while at it.
Requires updating one of the test to generate a non-ff push, as
O_CREAT doesn't exist at the git level, and the client (and it is
client-side) only protects against force pushes. So there is no way to
trigger an issue with just the creation of the new branch, it needs to
exist *and point to a non-ancestor commit*.
Also remove a sleep in the ref update loop as there are no ref updates
anymore, until the very final sync via git.
NB: maybe it'd be possible to push both bump and release PRs together
for each repo, but getting which update failed in case of failure
seems difficult.
It has been a consideration for a while, but the pain of subtly
interacting with git via the ignominous CLI kept it back. Then ~~the
fire nation attacked~~ github got more and more tight-fisted (and in
some ways less reliable) with their API.
Staging pretty much just interacts with the git database, so it's both
a facultative github operator (it can just interact with git directly)
and a big consumer of API requests (because the git database endpoints
are very low level so it takes quite a bit of work to do anything
especially when high-level operations like rebase have to be
replicated by hand).
Furthermore, an issue has also been noticed which can be attributed to
using the github API (and that API's reliability getting worse): in
some cases github will fail to propagate a ref update / reset, so when
staging 2 PRs it's possible that the second one is merged on top of
the temporary branch of the first one, yielding a kinda broken commit
(in that it's a merge commit with a broken error message) instead of
the rebase / squash commit we expected.
As it turns out it's a very old issue but only happened very early so
was misattributed and not (sufficiently) guarded against:
- 41bd82244bb976bbd4d4be5e7bd792417c7dae6b (October 8th 2018) was
spotted but thought to be a mergebot issue (might have been one of
the opportunities where ref-checks were added though I can't find
any reference to the commit in the runbot repo).
- 2be25052e147b151d1d8a5bc73cceb351586ce03 (October 15th, 2019) was
missed (or ignored).
- 5a9fe7a7d05a9df7186072a7bffd60c6b428fd0e (July 31st, 2023) was
spotted, but happened at a moment where everything kinda broke
because of github rate-limiting ref updates, so the forensics were
difficult and it was attributed to rate limiting issues.
- f10d03bf0f2e8f88f62a5d8356b84f714196130f (August 24th, 2023) broke
the camel's back (and the head block): the logs were not too
interspersed with other garbage and pretty clear that github ack'd a
ref update, returned the correct oid when checking the ref, then
returned the wrong oid when fetching it later on.
No Working Copy
===============
The working copy turns out to not be necessary, the plumbing commands
we *need* work just fine on a bare repository.
Working without a WC means we had to reimplement the high level
operations (rebase) by hand much as we'd done previously, *but* we
needed to do that anyway as git doesn't seem to provide any way to
retrieve the mapping when rebasing/cherrypicking, and cherrypicking by
commit doesn't work well as it can't really find the *merge base* it
needs.
Forward-porting can almost certainly be implemented similarly (with
some overhead), issue #803 has been opened to keep track of the idea.
No TMP
======
The `tmp.` branches are no more, the process of creating stagings is
based entirely around oids, if staging something fails we can just
abandon the oids (they'll be collected by the weekly GC), we only
need to update the staging branches at the very end of the process.
This simplifies things a fair bit.
For now we have stopped checking for visibility / backoff as we're
pushing via git, hopefully it is a more reliable reference than the
API.
Commmit Message Formatting
==========================
There's some unfortunate churn in the test, as the handling of
trailing newlines differs between github's APIs and git itself.
Fixes#247
PS: It might be a good idea to use pygit2 instead of the CLI
eventually, the library is typed which is nice, and it avoids
shelling out although that's really unlikely to be a major cost.
Necessary to create commits *as* the mergebot without going through
the github API. Copy of the improved version from forwardport. *Not*
an override, to avoid unnecessarily triggering one or the other which
is confusing and weird.
Move *almost* all the staging code to free functions, in a separate
module, and extensively typed.
The only bits which didn't move are:
- the entry point (the cron hook), because it has to be a model method
in order to be called
- the `_build_merge_message` method, because it needs to be
overridable
There's also a bit of an import mess, because the cron &
`_build_merge_message` need to call into the new module, but the new
module wants the types they belong to, so it's a bit circular.
If the stagings are going to be created locally (via a git working
copy rather than the github API), the mergebot part needs to have
access to the cache, so move the cache over. Also move the maintenance
cron.
In an extermely minor way, this prefigures the (hopeful) eventual
merging of the ~~planes~~ modules.
- add formatting for a bunch of backend objects
- add cross-links in order to use toplevel navigation between objects
e.g. project -> branch -> staging -> PR with breadcrumbs instead of
shitty dialog boxes
Relates to #802
When I updated the status storage (including `previous_failure`) for
some reason I didn't just migrate from the old to the new format, and
added bridge functions instead.
This is not really necessary (or useful), so convert all the legacy
data and remove the conversion helpers.
Relates to #802
In 81ce4ea02b the delta for PRs being
listed in the `/forwardport/outstanding` page was increased from 3
days to 7 (1 week), however the warning box in the home page still
used the old cutoffs leading to
An inconsistency between the two and an effective severe overcounting,
as the reason why the cutoff was increased to a week is forward ports
can take a while or the author / reviewer can be a touch busy at end
of week, so 3~4 days are routine when a PR is merged on thursday or
friday (and even worse if there's bank holidays in the mix).
Mostly a temporary safety feature after the events of 07-31: it's
still not clear whether that was a one-off issue or a change in
policy (I was not able to reproduce locally even doing several
set_refs a second) and the gh support is not super talkative, but it
probably doesn't hurt to commit the workaround until #247 gets
implemented.
On 2023-07-31, around 08:30 UTC, `set_ref` started failing, a lot
(although oddly enough not continuously), with the unhelpful message
that
> 422: Reference cannot be updated
This basically broke all stagings, until a workaround was implemented
by adding a 1s sleep before `set_ref` to ensure no more than 1
`set_ref` per second, which kinda sorta has been the github
recommendation forever but had never been an issue
before. Contributing to this suspicion is that in late 2022, the
documentation of error 422 on `PATCH git/refs/{ref}` was updated to:
> Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.
Still would be nice if GH was clear about it and sent a 429 instead.
Technically the recommendation is:
> If you're making a large number of POST, PATCH, PUT, or DELETE
> requests for a single user or client ID, wait at least one second
> between each request.
So... actually implement that. On a per-worker basis as for the most
part these are serial processes (e.g. crons), we can still get above
the rate limit due to concurrent crons but it should be less likely.
Also take `Retry-After` in account, can't hurt, though we're supposed
to retry just the request rather than abort the entire thing. Maybe a
future update can improve this handling.
Would also be nice to take `X-RateLimit` in account, although that's
supposed to apply to *all* requests so we'd need a second separate
timestamp to track it. Technically that's probably also the case for
`Retry-After`. And fixing #247 should cut down drastically on the API
calls traffic as staging is a very API-intensive process, especially
with the sanity checks we had to add, these days we might be at 4
calls per commit per PR, and up to 80 PRs/staging (5 repositories and
16 batches per staging), with 13 live branches (though realistically
only 6-7 have significant traffic, and only 1~2 get close to filling
their staging slots).
`/runbot_merge/stagings`
========================
This endpoint is a reverse lookup from any number of commits to a
(number of) staging(s):
- it takes a list of commit hashes as either the `commits` or the
`heads` keyword parameter
- it then returns the stagings which have *all* these commits as
respectively commits or heads, if providing all commits for a
project the result should always be unique (if any)
- `commits` are the merged commits, aka the stuff which ends up in the
actual branches
- `heads` are the staging heads, aka the commits at the tip of the
`staging.$name` branches, those may be the same as the corresponding
commit, or might be deduplicator commits which get discarded on
success
`/runbot_merge/stagings/:id`
============================
Returns a list of all PRs in the staging, grouped by batch (aka PRs
which have the same label and must be merged together).
For each PR, the `repository` name, `number`, and `name` in the form
`$repository#$number` get returned.
`/runbot_merge/stagings/:id1/:id2`
==================================
Returns a list of all the *successfully merged* stagings between `id1`
and `id2`, from oldest to most recent. Individual records have the
form:
- `staging` is the id of the staging
- `prs` is the contents of the previous endpoint (a list of PRs
grouped by batch)
`id1` *must* be lower than `id2`.
By default, this endpoint is inclusive on both ends, the
`include_from` and / or `include_to` parameters can be passed with the
`False` value to exclude the corresponding bound from the result.
Related to #768
`auto_session_tracking` causes issues when not specified on the super
old version of the client which is available on ubuntu.
Also disable tracing as it seems less useful than hoped for, and I've
not been using what's been collected so far.
Currently the heads of a staging (both staging heads and merged heads)
are just JSON data on the staging itself. Historically this was
convenient as the heads were mostly of use to the staging process, and
thus accessed directly through the staging essentially exclusively.
However this makes finding stagings from merged commits e.g. for
forensic research almost impossible, because querying based on
the *values* of a JSON map is expensive, and indexing it is difficult.
To make this use case more feasible, split the `heads` field into two
join tables, one for the staging heads and one for the merged heads,
this makes looking for stagings by commits much more
efficient (although the queries may not be trivial). Also add two
utility RPC methods, so that it's possible to query stagings
reasonably easily and efficiently based on a set of commits (branch
heads).
related to #768
