Staged-recipes: Skip CI requests

[jakirkham]

Trying to keep track of these in one place.

1. Make [ci skip] work in PRs for CircleCI. ( ref )
2. Have [circle skip] to skip CircleCI specifically. ( ref )
3. Have [travis skip] to skip Travis CI specifically. ( https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5032 )

[jakirkham]

Appears CircleCI now respects [ci skip] on pull requests, but not [skip ci] yet.

[smithsp]

What is the placement of these strings? In a commit message, or in a pull request title? What about [skip appveyor]?

[CJ-Wright]

In the commit message.

[CJ-Wright]

I don't know if appveyor has a skip. @jakirkham does appveyor have a skip?

[smithsp]

https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/#3-how-do-i-exclude-a-platform

[CJ-Wright]

Not the same, that skips the CI forever. We just want to skip the CI temporally. (eg the only change you made was removing a comment). The CIs will all run as proper when we go to merge (or one puts in another commit without those in the message)
Edit: I take that all back, it seems that there is an appveyor skip, sorry (I was looking at the wrong section)

[CJ-Wright]

Just for ease of reference [skip appveyor] is listed in the Readme as @smithsp found.

[smithsp]

It is odd that I added those strings in my commit message, but https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/4540 still triggered circleci and appveyor builds.

[CJ-Wright]

It seems they can be a bit fickle.

[jakirkham]

Probably should add that the ones listed in the OP are all ones that don’t work, but we or others have requested the CIs add them.

[smithsp]

Note that I found https://www.appveyor.com/docs/how-to/filtering-commits/ which indicates the [skip appveyor] (or [skip ci]) directive must be in the git commit title line for appveyor. My latest commit in #4560 seems to confirm this.

[jakirkham]

That's correct. Also issue ( https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/1865 ) may be of interest w.r.t. AppVeyor's commit filtering.

[croth1]

Does anybody have an overview of the current status?

• travis, appveyor: it looks like travis and appveyor have implemented specific skips.
• circle: was an update last month: https://discuss.circleci.com/t/adding-circle-skip-to-commit-message-to-skip/2778/19, but I don't know the progress
• azure: I have no data

I think it would be interesting to collect all of these in the documentation: http://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/infrastructure.html#skipping-ci-builds

It would be also interesting to have instructions to skip mac and windows but not linux, etc.

[ceholden]

Just came across an update for Azure on their issue tracker (post) -- they've just enabled skipping for commit messages with [skip ci] and a few other tags