Not sure about the credential storage, but yes, using a bot account makes a lot of sense.
Geoffrey On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:24 AM Istvan Toth <st...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi! > > I've recently implemented the Yetus PR checks for GitHub PR, which for the > most part seem to work well. > > However, it seems that none of the available GitHub credentials in Jenkins > let the job comment on the PR, so ATM the jobs are using my GitHub account. > It is not very professional looking, and I get spammed with mail on every > entry on every ticket that has a PR, which makes life difficult for me. > > Looking at HBase (as ever), they have created a bot account, and are using > it for the same purpose. > > I propose that we do similarly. The GitHub docs > < > https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/getting-started-with-github/types-of-github-accounts > > > seem > to indicate that it is OK. > > One open question is how to share the credentials, so that I am not not the > only one with access. I seem to recall that we have a private SVN or git > repo for Phoenix members somewhere, that we could use to store the > login/password for it, but I cannot find it now. > > Please share your opinion, and point me to the private repo, or the docs > that describes it. > > regards > Istvan >
