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Migration of the GitHub bot from our infra to GitHub actions #51236

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opened on Dec 20, 2023

Maintenance of the GitHub bot has become a problem. The machine it's running on is on a quite old version of Debian that doesn't support recent versions of Node.js and we have very few people who know and work on the bot's code (https://github.com/nodejs/github-bot).

I'd like to know if collaborators would be willing to help with a migration of the bot's features to GitHub actions and/or Jenkins plugins/scripts that talk directly to GitHub.

Those features are:

@nodejs/actions @nodejs/github-bot

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  2. marco-ippolito commented on Dec 20, 2023

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    on Dec 20, 2023
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    Arent these action already triggered by a github action, for example when a PR is opened?

  3. targos commented on Dec 20, 2023

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    on Dec 20, 2023
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    No, they're triggered by a github webhook.

  4. phillipj commented on Dec 21, 2023

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    on Dec 21, 2023
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    Chiming in with some historical context in case it would be helpful:

    • Some ancient parts has already been pulled out of the github-bot into the Github Action node-pr-labeler, dunno if you feel it's a sensible project to continue building on
    • Jenkins relay seemed like a sensible trick years ago to allow writing Github Actions based off of Jenkins events: nodejs/github-bot@9ef8f37

    Regarding the last point, if Jenkins could talk directly with Github instead these days, that sounds reasonable for less indirection 👍🏻

  5. targos commented on Dec 31, 2023

    @targos
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    We can probably do something with https://github.com/jenkinsci/github-checks-plugin

  6. avivkeller commented on Jun 18, 2024

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    on Jun 18, 2024
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    Ping code owners when a PR is opened: https://github.com/nodejs/github-bot/blob/main/scripts/node-ping-owners.js

    #53149
    nodejs/github-bot#521

  7. mahmutovicr commented on May 14, 2026

    @mahmutovicr
    mahmutovicr
    on May 14, 2026

    @targos I'd like to work on migrating all three GitHub bot features to GitHub Actions. I'll open separate PRs for each.

  8. github-actions commented on Aug 17, 2026

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    This issue has been marked as stale due to 90 days of inactivity.
    It will be automatically closed in 30 days if no further activity occurs. If this is still relevant, please leave a comment or update it to keep it open.

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  11. LeonxLJX commented on Sep 1, 2026

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