Can we fully automate packages' new releases?

[Linchin]

General comment:

@conda-forge/staged-recipes
@conda-forge/help-python

I'm exploring ways to automate the conda-forge releases of my packages. I see that there's a bot, but it looks like it may not work if the dependency changes. Is it impossible to avoid manual effort entirely here?

In the process of looking for references I see that pandas uses a different bot to update the package (not sure how to do that), but still requires manual approval, and in some cases, manual changes (example). I suppose if automation is possible, pandas would have done it, but maybe I'm missing something.

If this isn't the right forum to ask this question, please let me know who is the right point of contact. Thanks for your help!

[cameronraysmith]

You may like to review the configuration options here: https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/conda_forge_yml/#bot .

For example, you may consider editing conda-forge.yml in the feedstock to contain

bot:
  automerge: true
  inspection: update-grayskull

If you look at the results of this search, you will see, for example, that this is done in the great-expectations feedstock

https://github.com/conda-forge/great-expectations-feedstock/blob/72c492232ce5b70aec360674908dbb71e273bc97/conda-forge.yml#L4-L6

It may also be helpful to review

https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/infrastructure/#automerge
https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/infrastructure/#conda-forge-admin-please-add-bot-automerge

[Linchin]

Thank you @cameronraysmith, so there are two ways to add automerge:

1. set bot.automerge: true in conda-forge.yml
2. ping conda-forge-admin as in this instruction

What's the relationship between them? Are they the same thing, or both need to be done before automerge is enabled? Is there any case when automerge wouldn't go through?

[cameronraysmith]

two ways to add automerge:

1. set bot.automerge: true in conda-forge.yml
2. ping conda-forge-admin as in this instruction

• the second just generates a PR containing the first
• I linked above from a PR [ci skip] ***NO_CI*** add grayskull automerge hydra-zen-feedstock#1 to this issue as an example of doing this manually from a new feedstock
• automerge will depend on passing CI

https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/conda_forge_yml/#bot is the best reference I am aware of regarding the topic of your OP