REQUEST: Repository maintenance on opentelemetry-python: verify otelbot permissions

[aabmass]

Affected Repository

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python

Requested changes

Can you confirm if otelbot has "Project: read/write" permissions?

Purpose

Trying to do Github project board automation and these permissions are needed, cc @MikeGoldsmith

Expected Duration

N/A

Repository Maintainers

• @open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib-maintainers

[arminru]

@aabmass As of now, it does not have access to GH Projects.

The current permission scopes are documented here:
https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/assets.md#otelbot

If desired, you can request a dedicated otelbot instance for OTel Python with an extended scope.

cc @trask

[MikeGoldsmith]

Hello 👋🏻 - it's me who has been working on this.

The goal is to support automatically adding PRs for the Python core and contrib repo to a dedicated Github board:

• Python PR digest (view)

I originally set this up using the board's workflow's, but this has a limitation that a draft PR that's marked Ready for review, does not re-trigger the workflow so never gets added to the board. We intentionally decided to not add draft PRs to the board as we already have a lot of PRs (57 in core and 97 in contrib).

An alternative to the board workflow is adding a Github Action which can trigger on the ready_for_review event. This is not possible with board workflows yet.

All of that is to say, the GHA requires Project: Read/Write permissions to do that.

I looked for examples of other OpenTelemetry repos that did something similar, but didn't find anything. A scoped otelbot for Python would unblock us, but if this is a pattern that other repos decide to adopt, a generic otelbot with the project permissions seems reasonable to not have many copies.

Thanks for your help 👍🏻

[aabmass]

If desired, you can request a dedicated otelbot instance for OTel Python with an extended scope.

Sounds like we need this. Can we re-use this request or should I file a new ticket?

[arminru]

This ticket should be fine.

A scoped otelbot for Python would unblock us, but if this is a pattern that other repos decide to adopt, a generic otelbot with the project permissions seems reasonable to not have many copies.

@trask WDYT?

[trask]

A scoped otelbot for Python would unblock us, but if this is a pattern that other repos decide to adopt, a generic otelbot with the project permissions seems reasonable to not have many copies.

@trask WDYT?

I'd prefer to keep the existing shared otelbot purely read-only, but we could create a second shared otelbot that has project permissions if this is something multiple repos want to adopt.

[MikeGoldsmith]

What would the next steps be to get a new otelbot with projects access setup?