This week in the project, we added the support for status reporting of the package actions via commit statuses.

Feedback and Commit status

A key improvement this week is in status reporting. Now, whenever an action like a package build or a test succeeds or fails, the result is directly reported as a commit status on the pull request. This provides immediate clear feedback right where it’s most visible, the list of checks one can find on the bottom of the PR page.

To achieve this, I had to implement the necessary commit status logic for Forgejo within OGR, the library we use for Git forge interactions, as it was previously missing.

I noticed that Forgejo does not really support commenting under individual commits and every comment therefore is just a normal comment in the discussion. I focused on the latter instead.

Currently, what’s left is writing unit tests for the new code, will be done along with pushing the code into upstream sources.

What’s Next?

With this feature in place, my next steps will be:

• Project Demonstration: Prepare a comprehensive demo to showcase the concept and the new workflow.
• Code Refinement: Continue with bug fixes and code refactoring to improve the maintainability of the service. Primarily, downsizing from the original packit-worker code for the parts where we don’t need the integrations of services not involved in this project.