post CI-style status to github

[ted-fastly]

This is a feature request. When a PR is opened it is hard to tell if Atlantis is aware of it, as a plan can take a while. It'd be nice if Atlantis supported setting a status- for instance, github has the CI status bit; the runatlantis repo runs three different CIs, for instance. It would work by setting the pending flag when it started, then success/fail on each run.

[ted-fastly]

this may be a duplicate of #729, #549, #185, maybe I'm missing a setting that gives this feedback?

[lkysow]

Hi Ted, we do set statuses. Maybe your Atlantis user doesn't have permissions to set the status? If so you'd see errors in the logs about not being able to set commit statuses.

[ted-fastly]

Aha. That makes sense, given those other issues I linked. I just couldn't find anything in the doc that made me 100% sure, or how/why it was missing. Here's what I see in my logs, btw:

 Unable to update commit status: POST https://api.github.com/repos/aa/bb/statuses/abc123hash: 404 Not Found []

It turns out our Atlantis github user only had read access to the repo. Once I bumped that to "write" I started getting the in-progress status.