Ability to restart a build.

[dmitshur]

This is a feature request for your consideration.

Something that's possible to do in Travis CI is to restart a given build, for a PR or for a commit.

Sometimes a build fails due to temporary issues, such as a network connectivity issue, or because one of the dependencies wasn't pushed, causing build errors.

With GopherCI, as far as I know, it's not currently possible to restart a build, so if it fails, you're no longer able to check if that commit has issues after resolving the temporary problem, and you're stuck with a permanent failed status on the commit or PR.

This has happened to me recently.

Commit

shurcooL/home@a71dbf6.

• https://gci.gopherci.io/analysis/1228
• https://travis-ci.org/shurcooL/home/builds/308193327

PR

shurcooL/githubv4#27.

• https://gci.gopherci.io/analysis/1215
• https://gci.gopherci.io/analysis/1214
• https://travis-ci.org/shurcooL/githubql/builds/306504263
• https://travis-ci.org/shurcooL/githubql/builds/306504256

[bradleyfalzon]

Thanks, I'm surprised I didn't have an issue for this already.

You're right it's needed, it'll be simpler if I simply allow anyone to restart a build, the challenge was making sure I kept enough information around to restart a build.