In the current system, navigating longstanding or complicated pull requests is a bear. Because of the github actions workflows we run, github notifies any failures with a comment directly on the PR conversation page. This obfuscates meaningful dialogue as we bury human interaction with automated messages that a test is still failing etc.
I propose, we update the workflow to delete the previous github actions comment from the PR meaning that at any time, we will only have the most recent github action comment. There is little reason to be moving backwards through the comments and this solution will allow us to still have the automatic comments from the CI while removing clutter.
scrawfor99
commented
1 year ago
What/Why
What are you proposing?
In the current system, navigating longstanding or complicated pull requests is a bear. Because of the github actions workflows we run, github notifies any failures with a comment directly on the PR conversation page. This obfuscates meaningful dialogue as we bury human interaction with automated messages that a test is still failing etc.
I propose, we update the workflow to delete the previous github actions comment from the PR meaning that at any time, we will only have the most recent github action comment. There is little reason to be moving backwards through the comments and this solution will allow us to still have the automatic comments from the CI while removing clutter.