[OT] Restarting Travis from a pull request

syphilis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

At this pull request, Travis reports a failure.
So I go to the Travis build log where I can see the failing job (perl-5.14-thr).

Karen Etheridge once told me that in such a scenario I should be able to re-run the job, and this page that I googled agrees.
In fact, that page that I googled is very similar to the Travis build log that I linked to above.
The only siginificant differences I can see are that the build log I'm looking at contains neither the "Restart build" button, nor the various "Restart job" buttons down the RHS of the page.

Is it possible for me to re-run that particular failing job ?
AFAICT it's only failing because Travis can't find the perl-5.14 distro.

I know I can initiate a full rebuild by pushing some pointless inconsequential change (eg change in whitespace) to my forked repo.
Is that the only way ?

Should I just ignore that fail report and do nothing at all about it ? (Is such non-action deemed reasonable ? ... I'm not sure what the conventions are wrt this.)

Cheers,
Rob

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Re: [OT] Restarting Travis from a pull request by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 07, 2020 at 09:08 UTC
You have to be a maintainer of the project in order to be allowed to restart a Travis build. Try closing and re-opening the pull request. It works here at work, but I'm not sure it's a general GitHub-Travis behaviour or a proprietary enhancement. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: [OT] Restarting Travis from a pull request by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 07, 2020 at 12:32 UTC
You have to be a maintainer of the project in order to be allowed to restart a Travis build Ok - that would explain it. Try closing and re-opening the pull request Heh ... obviously you have a deep understanding of the basic principles of IT ;-))) Thankfully, the PR in question has since been merged (and closed) ... and I aint messin wif nuffin. (One doesn't poke at Islam, and one doesn't poke at Github.) Seriously - thanks for your response, choroba. And thanks also to marto, for making me aware of the lower level possibilities. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re: [OT] Restarting Travis from a pull request by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 07, 2020 at 09:50 UTC
There are various fancy things that can be done with the Travis API (example), however I think you have hit on something else, isn't that always the way with these things? My understanding of travis-perl that "It will automatically build perl if the version requested doesn't exist.". I see a 404 while trying to pull back a v5.14 with threads, I don't see an attempt to build. Update: ignore that second part, it's been a long day (so far). See below.	[reply]
Re^2: [OT] Restarting Travis from a pull request by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 07, 2020 at 10:27 UTC
It failed with a probable GitHub hiccup: `fatal: unable to connect to github.com: github.com[0: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection timed out` [download] `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: [OT] Restarting Travis from a pull request by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 07, 2020 at 11:02 UTC
Thanks, missed that. Some searching shows this not to be isolated, with the suggestion of switching to https rather than git://, to avoid timeouts (apparently), weird proxy configs etc.	[reply]