Control center in PR description

[trz42]

Provide an overview of the status of the PR and means to control instances (disable/enable instances and/or targets, deploy builds for specific instance/target).

Could be implemented by a "master" bot instance which receives all events (PR opened, labelled and particularly updates to comments).

Add mockups of the layout in subsequent comments to this issue.

Maybe a simple table that is added to the very first comment. Table could look as follows

Target	Build Step (Submit/Release/Run/Finish)	Deploy Step (Upload/Stage/Approve/Ingest)	Bot Instance
x86_64-generic	:white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark:	Saga-PR62
x86_64-intel-haswell	:white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :x:	- / - / - / -	CitC-PR62
aarch64-generic	:white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark:	eX3-PR62
aarch64-generic	:white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark:	CitC-PR62
aarch64-graviton2	:white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark: / :white_check_mark:	- / - / - / -	CitC-PR62

OR

Target	Submitted	Released	Running	Finished	Uploaded	Staged	Approved	Ingested	Bot Instance
x86_64-generic	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	Saga-PR62
x86_64-intel-haswell	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:x:	CitC-PR62
aarch64-generic	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	eX3-PR62
aarch64-generic	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	CitC-PR62
aarch64-graviton2	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	CitC-PR62

OR

PRSO (Pull Request Status Overview)

target	confirmed	built	validated	deployed	verified	comments
x86_64-generic	✅	❔	❔	❔	👍	link(s) to details
x86_64-amd-zen2	❌	❔	❔	❔	👍	link(s) to details

(GHA could add a second comment used as command log: confirm <target>, approve <target>, deploy <target>, etc.)

[trz42]

Bot instance at name with defined targets:	arch	repo/version	config	builds	deployment
x86_64/generic	NESSI/2022.11	enabled	✅ :x:	🏃approved
aarch4/generic	NESSI/2022.11	disabled	✅	--

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Last state changes ($n$ per target)

date	arch+repo/version	job id	action/state	details
tomorrow	aarch64/generic+NESSI/2022.11	1234	submitted	job dir /tmp/foo

All jobs (human readable, one table per job)

|date|arch+repo/version|job id|action/state|details| |----|--------|-----|-----|------------------------| |tomorrow|`aarch64/generic+NESSI/2022.11`|`1234`|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`| |today|`aarch64/generic+NESSI/2022.11`|`1234`|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`| |yesterday|`aarch64/generic+NESSI/2022.11`|`1234`|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`| |date|arch+repo/version|job id|action/state|details| |----|--------|-----|-----|------------------------| |tomorrow|`x86_64/generic+NESSI/2022.11`|`5678`|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`| |today|`x86_64/generic+NESSI/2022.11`|`5678`|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`| |yesterday|`x86_64/generic+NESSI/2022.11`|`5678`|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`| job `ABCD` arch `x86_64/generic` repo `NESSI/2022.11` |date|action/state|details| |----|-----|------------------------| |tomorrow|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`| |today|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`| |yesterday|`submitted`|job dir `/tmp/foo`|

All state changes (machine readable, `json`)

```json { "date 1" } ```

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Commands Note, add commands to the bot below. Keep the ones which are there. Add new at the end of the list. See DOC for a list of supported commands. Example 1: @bot cancel job 12345 Example 2: @bot disable target aarch64/generic for NESSI/2022.11

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Notes

• why all these checksum errors

While reviewing https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/328, I also figured that it would be very useful to have something like this. The PRs had quite a few build issues, and multiple rebuilds were triggered in attempts to solve these issues, which makes it hard for a reviewer to determine the actual state of the builds/PR.

[laraPPr]

I have created a bot: status command which collects all the comments in the pr related to the bot: build command which then print an overveiw of all the build in one table. I'll open a pr for it once I have cleaned some things up.

[laraPPr]

Just opened https://github.com/EESSI/eessi-bot-software-layer/pull/237 to create a bot: status command.

also tested it and here is an example of what the command does:

• https://github.com/laraPPr/software-layer/pull/4#issuecomment-1910007732