nixborg

Github bot for reviewing/testing pull requests with the help of Hydra

Getting Started

$ nix-shell
$ $CELERY

$ nix-shell
$ $APP

Workflow

• new PR appears
• maintainer tells bot to test the PR with @nixborg build
• PR branches is rebased upon its base (which can also be nixpkgs-channels branch)
• rebased branch is pushed to nixpkgs/pr-XXX branch
• HTTP request to nixbot-receiver script running on hydra
• receiver adds jobset definition to hydra via hydra-update-jobset
• TODO: once built, report is commented on the PR
• TODO: optionally, merge the PR if there are no new failures, disable the jobset