Add repository-dispatch workflow to deployment #497
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This PR adds a "repository dispatch" step to the build workflow. What this does is trigger a GitHub Actions run in the astropy/learn-astropy repository. The payload for the trigger includes a reference to the workflow artifact, which will allow the learn-astropy build to download the tutorials artifact. This requires a GitHub Secret to be set up on the tutorials repo named `DISPATCH_GITHUB_TOKEN` that has a write access to the astropy/learn-astropy repository. See https://github.com/peter-evans/repository-dispatch#token
This conservative versioning approach but prevents us from automatically updating to a new version of repository-dispatch. Dependabot will help us regularly re-evaluate the pin to get security and functionality updates from peter-evans/repository-dispatch.
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@adrn Would you mind taking a look at this one? I don't think I can assign the review to you because of repo access. Keep in mind that you'll also need to set up the GitHub Personal Access Token and add it as a secret. The token could come from a user account or a custom GitHub App installed into astropy/learn-astropy. |
Whoops! I just added you to the Learn Astropy Maintainers team - that was an oversight on my part...
As in, when we merge this, right? |
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BTW: You might have permissions now to set up the token yourself? |
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Awesome, I added the secret to the repo. Right now I'm using a Personal Access Token, but unfortunately, I can't scope it to a specific repository. I'll make a to-do for myself to investigate writing a new action that runs through a custom GitHub App because that apps essentially create tokens that are scoped to specific orgs/repos. For reference, the PAT has |
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PAT is probably unavoidable. If necessary, another maintainer can refresh it in admin page. |
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This PR adds a "repository dispatch" step to the build workflow. What this does is trigger a GitHub Actions run in the astropy/learn-astropy repository. The payload for the trigger includes a reference to the workflow artifact, which will allow the learn-astropy build to download the tutorials artifact.
This requires a GitHub Secret to be set up on the tutorials repo named
DISPATCH_GITHUB_TOKENthat has write access to the astropy/learn-astropy repository. See https://github.com/peter-evans/repository-dispatch#token