Possible to open source the github app source code?

[ofpiyush]

We want to make a few changes to how the app integration works:

• Ignore submitting the build altogether if this file doesn't exist.
• Change the path of where the app looks for cloudbuild.yaml file, ignore the Dockerfile.
• Auto trigger builds on github tags as well.

We've been using the build triggers setup on GCB, but that requires a lot of setup for every repo. The app is perfect as we can have it enabled for our entire org and any developer that wants to use it can opt in by adding the cloudbuild file. (hence the ignore if file doesn't exist)

We understand that some, if not all these requirements might be pretty specific to how we want to use GCB.

If we had access to the source code, we'd modify and host a version of the github app ourselves.
That would solve all of our use cases and maybe other people's as well who want to make minor edits for their bespoke use cases.

[nof20]

Hey Piyush,

Glad you're finding this functionality helpful! I don't think open source makes sense for us right now, but we do actually have some new functionality coming out into Alpha very soon which gives you all three of those things you mentioned. If you're interested in joining the wait-list, email me so we can understand your use-cases in detail.

Nick

[ofpiyush]

Since people are landing on this, it's worth mentioning that after some back and forth their response was:

We don't currently have this sort of global configuration of default App trigger handling on our roadmap and would direct users to create GCB triggers for this.

As GCB triggers also don't have org level setup, no dice for org level defaults and setup.

They did mention

Other users have written lightweight bridge services that receives GitHub webhooks directly and then handles the filtering logic and triggers builds via the API.