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Flow example of Bors-NG

This document goal is to explain what's the flow of events which occur when someone merges a PR with bors.

PR creation

Nothing special in this step. A developer creates a PR, CI runs and other developers do the code review. After everyone is in agreement, someone writes bors r+ as a comment in the PR.

Comments web hook

Every time there is a comment, bors gets notified through a Github webhook. See webhoook_controller.ex for the code. Bors gets all the information it needs and creates a Command. Since the comment contains r+, Worker.Batcher needs to be notified.

Command looks up in the registry for an existing Batcher thread. If the batcher thread does not exist (either because there was no running work, or because it crashed), it creates a new thread. If the batcher thread does already exist, it just sends a message to it.

Batcher

NOTE: We are assuming that the queue is empty.

First of all, the Batcher will wait batch_delay_sec seconds before starting any work. By default, this is 10 seconds and it's a project property.

The batcher will use the github APIs to create a merge commit with all PR's commits and apply it to the staging branch. Previous staging changes are destroyed by force-pushing the merge commit over the top of it. If bors were using the git CLI, what it would be doing is:

  • clone the repo
  • create a new local branch called staging
  • merge the PRs into the staging branch
  • git push -f it to the remote server

After merging the merge commit to the staging branch it will wait for the CI result.

CI

CI will detect the change in the staging branch and start building it.

TIP: Depending how you configure your CI, what you run on staging might be different than what you run against PRs. A possible example is running unit tests in PRs and running EOE tests in staging. That's up to you.

After the build is finished, CI will notify github through the Status API.

The reason all communication is done through github is to make sure bors supports as many CI clients as possible. Right now, Travis, AppVeyor, and Jenkins are used without requiring to write custom rules on them.

Merge to master

Worker.Batcher will get notified of the CI result. There are two ways to find out the staging branch build status:

  • Status API webhook
  • Polling the status API

The poll logic is needed because a webhook might fail and GitHub does not retry delivery. If staging build is successful, Worker.Batcher would merge the merge commit, closing the PR.

Worker.Batcher's thread gets terminated after all of the items in the backlog are done.