Stale review dismissal loop

[lightclient]

Pull Request

#5793

We need to clean up the PR output so there aren't a ton of stale review dismissals.

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[Pandapip1]

Not possible; this is a GitHub limitation ("feature").

[lightclient]

How is it a github limitation? How do other systems deal with this?

[Pandapip1]

How do other systems deal with this?

They don't have reviews automatically dismissed on push. This is required for the EIPs repository, however, since PRs auto-merge.

[JEAlfonsoP]

Hi.

Could ? we try this:

Settings ▶ Branches ▶ Branch protection rules ▶ Edit ▶ Uncheck "Dismiss stale pull request approvals when new commits are pushed".

Either way I will take a look into EIP-Bot to see if there is a way to do it from the Bot.

[Pandapip1]

No, we can't do that. That permission must be checked to ensure that reviews are dismissed when new commits are pushed to branches, as you can see in the screenshot @lightclient linked.

[JEAlfonsoP]

So, you want to dismiss but not being notify ( no echo ) ?

[Pandapip1]

I think that is the goal, yes.

[JEAlfonsoP]

Hi @Pandapip1 , I would like to explore two possible options to silent this alert (or any other one), 1st Have you tried/used Code Scanning (workflow) filters for the repo ? and 2nd There is a REST API for alerts/{alert_number} endpoint, have you tried/used it ?
Sorry for the direct questions, I just do not want to expend time in something that you may be already has tried it.. Ty.

[Pandapip1]

Forgive me for the probably naive question, but how would enabling code scanning fix this problem?

[JEAlfonsoP]

Thanks for answering !
I would see if this (or any other alert) is listed in code scanning alerts and from there would use the -tag: filter to silent it.
But, as I said if you have not worked in it I will stop writing assumptions and will try to test it: implementing the code scanning workflow or coding the API into EIP-Bot. If you have any other idea please share it so I can either study it.

[Pandapip1]

This is unrelated to EIP bot; this is a GitHub feature (logging automatic review dismissals in the timeline) that we want to disable.

[JEAlfonsoP]

I believe that either, but I would like to find out each workflow's signal and see if we can silent (in case that is desired) it or not, one is what you mentioned above generated by GitHub itself.
If you agree I can proceed with the testing and If you are working on it, again I kindly ask you to let me know, and in case that you want to coordinate this study, let me know so I can DM you and so all the work goes in the same direction. Ty.

[Pandapip1]

Feel free to do testing. It is almost certainly caused by the dismiss stale reviews branch protection option, however.

[JEAlfonsoP]

Ty. I will do

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[Pandapip1]

I think this was a GitHub bug. The PR in question has been closed.