Github Build Status Bot

Retrieve updates from github actions, and write them to a channel somewhere. Additionally, re-run jobs and trigger workflows too.

This bot makes a couple of assumptions:

You've a SASL account for this bot to use
You've enabled actions notifications in github for failed/successful runs (these notifications need to be web notifications)

This bot requires the following env vars:

$GITHUB_TOKEN - a github token with notifications and actions enabled
$SASL_USER - the user to connect with
$SASL_PASSWORD - the password to connect with
$SERVER - IRC connection details, as irc://server:6667 or ircs://server:6697 (ircs implies irc-over-tls)
$VERIFY_TLS - Verify TLS, or sack it off. This is of interest to people, like me, running an ircd on localhost with a self-signed cert. Matches "true" as true, and anything else as false
$POLL_PERIOD - Time, in seconds, between polls of the github notification endpoint

The SASL mechanism is hardcoded to PLAIN. It's not a big job to change, I just don't know how to test it.

Building

This bot can be built using pretty standard go tools:

$ go build

Or via docker:

$ docker build -t foo .

If you've built the app yourself, then happy day- there's your binary!

Otherwise I suggest via docker:

$ docker run jspc/build-bot

(Setting the above environment variables accordingly)