feat: relay jenkins and gh events to gh

[mmarchini]

Initial implementation of the "Actions relay" suggested here: #264. Doesn't work yet because createDispatchEvent is not available on the github version we're using.

(current PR rebased on top of #271 and #270, actual implementation here)

[mmarchini]

Ah, one thing we need for GitHub events is to differentiate events coming from people with write access to the repo vs people without write access to it. We can append a ! when the event has write access or smth (dispatch event will always have write access in the action, which is fine, but it's good for us to filter some actions so they only run for people with the right permissions).

[phillipj]

That sounds convenient indeed! 👍

[mmarchini]

Oh nice, the GitHub part of this PR was rendered unnecessary by GitHub earlier this week: https://github.blog/2020-08-03-github-actions-improvements-for-fork-and-pull-request-workflows/. With the new event announced in this blog post we can move everything we have here to Actions on nodejs/node, except for the Jenkins status updater, which will still need the relay.

[phillipj]

Hooray! Cool to see how that in practise made CI-start-on-label in nodejs/node (nodejs/node#34707) a lot simpler as well 💯

[mmarchini]

I take it back, the new event is still not enough for some use cases (basically any use case that is not a check/linter/test), so we still want the relay

[mmarchini]

FYI I'll break this into two PRs: one for the Jenkins relay and one for the GitHub relay. Starting with the Jenkins relay which I think is more straightforward. This will allow us to experiment and tweak with it before adding GitHub as well. Also, if it works as expected we'll be able to remove a good chunk of code once we move Jenkins PR status to Actions :D

[phillipj]

Good idea! I'm a big fan of ship-small-and-tweak 👍

[phillipj]

@mmarchini you okey with me picking up the jenkins relay work you mentioned if I find the time?

Would be cool to contribute to the recent GitHub Actions efforts and move us in a direction we touched upon in the modernisation issue (#264).

[mmarchini]

I'm just back from vacation and was planning on picking this up again in a few weeks :)

If you have time before that, feel free to pick it up.

[phillipj]

Cool, welcome back from a well deserved break 😎

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[phillipj]

Just opened #289 with one of the commits from this PR cherry picked & slimmed to only relay Jenkins events for now.

[Trott]

I'm going to close this as stagnant but by all means re-open if someone is going to be working on it. Thanks.