Support triggering builds via comments on Pull Requests | Feature Requests

Support triggering builds via comments on Pull Requests

under review

Vinny Thanh

Would be nice to be able to trigger certain builds or jobs by commenting on a pull request.

CCI-I-1213

October 30, 2019

Benedetta Dal Canton

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under review

Kostas Kapetanakis

It would be great to be able to trigger a job from a commit or webhook with params so you can drive different worlflows on a repo.

We have some that would trigger a more heavy and resource consuming set of tests, they need to run on specific type of PRs

Benedetta Dal Canton

Kostas Kapetanakis thank you for this feedback! I've reached out to you by email to ask some follow up questions.

Benedetta Dal Canton

Hi, PM at CircleCI here.  
We are currently working on a solution that will allow, among other things, to trigger builds via PR comment - specifically for our Github App integration. 
I'd love some feedback on how we're thinking of approaching this. If you want to make sure your voice is heard, send me an email at benedetta@circleci.com.

Ryan Boyce

Would be great to have this to trigger things on a PR that you don't need ot re-run every single commit. We have 20+ min integration tests that we want to run on PR's, but if they run every commit of every PR, it's too cost prohibitive. We're looking at Actions for this reason :/

Toan Phan

Love to do this too :D

Mohamed Zakaria El-Zoghbi

This would be really helpful

Alexander Graf

Would love this too!

Or Levy

this can be really useful for us as we don't want to run e2e on every pr (but want to do it before a merge)

We use similar flow in jenkins (for other project) when pr is ready for e2e.

Pubudu Dodangoda

This would be really nice. Does anyone know a temporary hack for this until it becomes a thing?

Filip Popić

Pubudu Dodangoda: I think in Github Actions you should make an action that calls circleci API and submits a job