CI: Notifications when a job in GitHub Actions fails

[datapythonista]

xref #32279

For what I see, when a build in the CI for a commit to master fails, only the user who triggered the action receives an alert (assuming the user has notifications enabled in their settings).

I think for Travis and pipelines, some people are receiving notifications for all the failures. Ideally we would like to be able to do the same for actions. I had a quick look, but not sure how this can be enabled. I checked in the settings, but no option seems to exist.

[leeyspaul]

take

[leeyspaul]

It seems as though we'd have to build in a step for each corresponding job in the workflow based on this StackOverflow post.

@datapythonista would this be what you were thinking?

[leeyspaul]

After doing some research it seems like there could be a possibility in calling the GitHub API to pull a list of watchers on the repo and then notifying accordingly on a failure.

Docs: https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/watching/#list-watchers

Would this be something on the right lines that we're thinking for this? @datapythonista

[datapythonista]

@jreback, do you want to receive a notification when a build from a merge to master is broken? We can try to implement it with GitHub actions.

[jreback]

yeah it's worth it - it should be low volume

we used to have travis emails a long time ago for this

but only if easy

[vhawk19]

Is this still open, I'd love to contribute!

[alissaVrk]

was there any progress?
is there any way to view master builds in a similar way to PRs? or do I have to go to actions and filter by branch