Crawler: Reporting failures & merging PRs

[Tim Van Holder]

Hi,

two weeks ago I noticed that my global tool configuration wasn't listing the most recent SDK.

Looking on the update center, I found that the files were indeed out of date.

Investigating further showed there was indeed a failure in my crawler script, so I fixed it and submitted a PR.

This got approved not too long after.

However, it still hasn't been merged, and there's now 2 SDKs that have been released but are not listed.

Can something be done to:

a) detect crawler failures more easily, and

b) make it easier to have these PRs reviewed and merged?

For a), given the scripts are run in locked down configurations, there's no way (that I know of) to see the actual failures. Perhaps a list of failing scripts could be mailed to this list every time the crawler runs (or only after 3 consecutive failures or something, to make it less spammy when there are transient failures)?

For b), I'm not sure if there's a role that could be pinged in a comment. Or some other mechanism to get this looked at. It's frustrating to see a problem (potentially long after it started, due to a)), fix it quickly, and then wait weeks to have that fix applied.

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I’ve merged the PR that you were referring to

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 20:09, Tim Van Holder <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

two weeks ago I noticed that my global tool configuration wasn't listing the most recent SDK.

Looking on the update center, I found that the files were indeed out of date.

Investigating further showed there was indeed a failure in my crawler script, so I fixed it and submitted a PR.

This got approved not too long after.

However, it still hasn't been merged, and there's now 2 SDKs that have been released but are not listed.

Can something be done to:

a) detect crawler failures more easily, and

b) make it easier to have these PRs reviewed and merged?

For a), given the scripts are run in locked down configurations, there's no way (that I know of) to see the actual failures. Perhaps a list of failing scripts could be mailed to this list every time the crawler runs (or only after 3 consecutive failures or something, to make it less spammy when there are transient failures)?

For b), I'm not sure if there's a role that could be pinged in a comment. Or some other mechanism to get this looked at. It's frustrating to see a problem (potentially long after it started, due to a)), fix it quickly, and then wait weeks to have that fix applied.

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