Triggers

The process of merging a change starts with proposing a change to be merged. Primarily, Zuul supports Gerrit as a triggering system. Zuul’s design is modular, so alternate triggering and reporting systems can be supported.

Gerrit

Zuul works with standard versions of Gerrit by invoking the gerrit stream-events command over an SSH connection. It also reports back to Gerrit using SSH.

If using Gerrit 2.7 or later, make sure the user is a member of a group that is granted the Stream Events permission, otherwise it will not be able to invoke the gerrit stream-events command over SSH.

A connection name with the gerrit driver can take multiple events with the following options.

event The event name from gerrit. Examples: patchset-created, comment-added, ref-updated. This field is treated as a regular expression.

branch The branch associated with the event. Example: master. This field is treated as a regular expression, and multiple branches may be listed.

ref On ref-updated events, the branch parameter is not used, instead the ref is provided. Currently Gerrit has the somewhat idiosyncratic behavior of specifying bare refs for branch names (e.g., master), but full ref names for other kinds of refs (e.g., refs/tags/foo). Zuul matches what you put here exactly against what Gerrit provides. This field is treated as a regular expression, and multiple refs may be listed.

ignore-deletes When a branch is deleted, a ref-updated event is emitted with a newrev of all zeros specified. The ignore-deletes field is a boolean value that describes whether or not these newrevs trigger ref-updated events. The default is True, which will not trigger ref-updated events.

approval This is only used for comment-added events. It only matches if the event has a matching approval associated with it. Example: code-review: 2 matches a +2 vote on the code review category. Multiple approvals may be listed.

email This is used for any event. It takes a regex applied on the performer email, i.e. Gerrit account email address. If you want to specify several email filters, you must use a YAML list. Make sure to use non greedy matchers and to escapes dots! Example: email: ^.*?@example\.org$.

email_filter (deprecated) A deprecated alternate spelling of email. Only one of email or email_filter should be used.

username This is used for any event. It takes a regex applied on the performer username, i.e. Gerrit account name. If you want to specify several username filters, you must use a YAML list. Make sure to use non greedy matchers and to escapes dots! Example: username: ^jenkins$.

username_filter (deprecated) A deprecated alternate spelling of username. Only one of username or username_filter should be used.

comment This is only used for comment-added events. It accepts a list of regexes that are searched for in the comment string. If any of these regexes matches a portion of the comment string the trigger is matched. comment: retrigger will match when comments containing ‘retrigger’ somewhere in the comment text are added to a change.

comment_filter (deprecated) A deprecated alternate spelling of comment. Only one of comment or comment_filter should be used.

require-approval This may be used for any event. It requires that a certain kind of approval be present for the current patchset of the change (the approval could be added by the event in question). It follows the same syntax as the “approval” pipeline requirement. For each specified criteria there must exist a matching approval.

reject-approval This takes a list of approvals in the same format as require-approval but will fail to enter the pipeline if there is a matching approval.

Timer

A simple timer trigger is available as well. It supports triggering jobs in a pipeline based on cron-style time instructions.

Timers don’t require a special connection or driver. Instead they can be used by listing timer as the trigger.

This trigger will run based on a cron-style time specification. It will enqueue an event into its pipeline for every project defined in the configuration. Any job associated with the pipeline will run in response to that event.

time The time specification in cron syntax. Only the 5 part syntax is supported, not the symbolic names. Example: 0 0 * * * runs at midnight.

Zuul

The Zuul trigger generates events based on internal actions in Zuul. Multiple events may be listed.

Zuul events don’t require a special connection or driver. Instead they can be used by listing zuul as the trigger.

event The event name. Currently supported:

project-change-merged when Zuul merges a change to a project, it generates this event for every open change in the project.

parent-change-enqueued when Zuul enqueues a change into any pipeline, it generates this event for every child of that change.

pipeline Only available for parent-change-enqueued events. This is the name of the pipeline in which the parent change was enqueued.

require-approval This may be used for any event. It requires that a certain kind of approval be present for the current patchset of the change (the approval could be added by the event in question). It follows the same syntax as the “approval” pipeline requirement. For each specified criteria there must exist a matching approval.

reject-approval This takes a list of approvals in the same format as require-approval but will fail to enter the pipeline if there is a matching approval.