CLAbot is lacking logs

[dims]

This is especially painful when doing git surgery, examples

• filtering some files in git (examples in https://github.com/kubernetes/utils/pulls)
• moving stuff between branches (example [FEATURE-SERVERSIDE-APPLY] Update vendor/sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff kubernetes/kubernetes#73042)
• between repos ( Moves hostpath driver from kubernetes-csi/drivers monorepo kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-host-path#1 )

Let's take an example - kubernetes/utils#55, the bot says:
cla/linuxfoundation — dims authorized, but 1 other problem

and the Details link points to https://identity.linuxfoundation.org/projects/cncf which is not helpful as we should not be pinging the helpdesk to figure out which git commit in a PR is causing an issue.

Can we please do better?

• log exactly why the bot thinks the PR is bad
• link to logs, so we can go look at the verbose output from the bot

[dims]

kind of related to #3

[dims]

currently the only way in k/k repos is to run the prow /override command by an admin to clear the bot status (tip courtesy of @BenTheElder)

[idvoretskyi]

cc @caniszczyk @idvoretskyi

[dankohn]

@dims We are ready to replace the old CLAbot with a newly developed one. One of the big strengths is that it will be open source. So, while I'm sure it will have some new (and different bugs), it should be feasible to resolve them much faster.

I had some hesitation on rolling out to Kubernetes first, and was hoping to use gRPC as our beta tester. If you feel differently, we could swap that around. Either way, we would love your help if you would be willing to take a look at what we have built.

Cc @ShubhraKar

[ShubhraKar]

@dims please let me know if you want to preview the new CLA tool. Happy to share.

[dims]

@ShubhraKar sure! yes please

[ShubhraKar]

Could you please provide your email or send me a note on skar@linuxfoundation.org so that I can schedule a meeting? Anyone else we should be inviting to the preview @dims @dankohn ?

[thisisnotapril]

@dankohn FWIW, gRPC would be happy to be the beta tester as well!

[dankohn]

That's great to hear, @thisisnotapril. We'd like to provide a demo for you as well. We don't want to switch over until you say it's ready, but gRPC is lower volume and so would make sense to start with.

[jpalmerLinuxFoundation]

@dims I shared some quick mockups for you regarding the logs. Just want to get some feedback going so I can understand the need better: communitybridge/easycla#169

[caniszczyk]

all issues should go to https://github.com/communitybridge/easycla

[dims]

This is still not fixed for kubernetes ... kubernetes/kubernetes#98735 (comment)

@caniszczyk can you please reopen this?

[caniszczyk]

@dims leaving this closed and instead opening the issue here for you communitybridge/easycla#2664

EasyCLA team will take it over, less a CNCF thing and more an EasyCLA issue

[dims]

@caniszczyk thanks!