I think it only triggers on changes to the pull request - i.e., a new commit. I'll talk to the cloudbees people (we are using the Jenkins Enterprise GH PR plugin, not the open source one) and see if they have any ideas.
On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Any feedback on the below? "retest this please" did not seem to work when a > committer tried it. > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > At Kafka, we intend to change our contribution flow to be based on GitHub > > pull requests. An important part of this flow is running CI builds on > pull > > requests. The basics are now working[1] thanks to Andrew Bayer's help. I > > have a few questions that I could not find an answer for (if this is > > information is already available somewhere, a reference is appreciated) > and > > I was hoping that someone here could help: > > > > 1. Is it possible to trigger a rebuild with "retest this please"? > > 2. Who is allowed to trigger a rebuild? Is it any committer or only > > those with access to Jenkins? > > 3. Can we use "add to whitelist" to add another user to the authorised > > list? > > 4. Out of curiosity, are we using > > > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/GitHub+pull+request+builder+plugin > > or something custom? > > > > Normally, I would just figure it out by trying these things, but I am not > > a committer and I don't have access to Jenkins, which makes things a bit > > harder! > > > > Thanks, > > Ismael > > > > [1] https://builds.apache.org/job/kafka-trunk-git-pr/ > > >