Change Author of Problem Matcher Annotations
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- C#
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Description
Describe the enhancement
It feels like there should be customizability around who is posting the annotations created by problem matchers. For instance, having annotations be created by reponame-ci-bot might feel more familiar to users in a repository that are unfamiliar with GitHub Actions as a whole. I would expect this to be a non-required environment variable, similar to overriding GITHUB_TOKEN with a personal access token, but that doesn't seem to work currently.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how problem matcher annotations are created in the runner and how the existing GITHUB_TOKEN override is handled. Determine where an optional annotation-author setting could be introduced, then verify that the default behavior remains unchanged and the custom author is used when configured.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp, github-actions
- Domain
- ci-cd
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100