Breakage tests for Julia

This is a workflow to test a list of packages when you make a pull request, so you know if the changes you're making so this package break the packages that depend on it. When the tests are done, you'll receive a comment on the PR like this:

Don't worry about Revise.jl being broken there, it's just an example.

Clarifications

• Use this workflow on your most core packages to test your dependent packages.
• This workflow should work even if the pull request is from outside the repo.
• The GitHub action shouldn't fail even if the package breaks something. Instead, the badge will be . See PR#2 for example.
• Both latest and stable work similarly: download the package, dev the PR, and test the package.
• The latest test will clone the package using the full url. So the default branch of the repository is used.
• The stable test will clone the package and checkout the latest tag. It won't use pkg> add to prevent Pkg from resolving conflicts.
• It should work on any branch because it's activate by a pull-request.
• CommentPR.yml can't be modified during the pull request, i.e., changes to it won't be in effect until after the PR is merged.
• Breakage.yml can be modified, you can change the packages on Breakage.yml, make a pull request, and see the new version in action (Example).
• It only works on Julia packages, because it will dev into it. That's why this is a julia package.
• This is failing on Revise by design, because it becomes a circular dependency.

Install

• Copy the files in .github/workflows.
• Modify Breakage.yml adding the packages you want tested.

Where it's being used / Examples

• NLPModels.jl and other packages of JuliaSmoothOptimizers.

Add your package to the bottom of the list by sending a PR.

Wishlist / TODO

• The badge url should point directly to the Job, ideally to the test, better yet to the last line of the test action.

License