JuliaTagBot is not opening new issue to comment on for triggering the repositories TagBot action

[anchal-physics]

Affected Repositories

https://github.com/ProjectTorreyPines/IMASggd.jl

https://github.com/ProjectTorreyPines/SOLPS2imas.jl

Action setup

Both repositories are using reusable workflow definition stored in https://github.com/ProjectTorreyPines/GitHubActionsWorkflows/blob/master/.github/workflows/tag_bot.yml

Note that this reusable workflow uses the same file as described on README.md but I renamed the file to tag_bot.yml to match filename case with other files.

Description of issue

First I tried this in IMASggd while registering 2.0.1 . The registration went through fine but the TagBot did not get triggered. No issue was created and thus no comment was made by JulaTagBot. I thought that maybe the issue is that JuliaTagBot is looking for a TagBot.yml file in the workflow directory and since I changed the name of the file, it could not verify if TagBot action is active or not (although it was visible as TagBot actions in list of available actions in GitHub webpage). Then, I first tried to run the workflow manually to make sure everything else is fine. And it is. The workflow ran fine and generated the new tag.

So to test the 'file name not matching' hypothesis, in another repo, SOLPS2imas, where I was also releasing a new version, I added TagBot with the filename as TagBot.yml but I face the same issue as before. No new issue was opened by JuliaTagBot and no comment was made because of which the action never triggered.

Not sure what is wrong. Should I open a new issue called "TagBot trigger issue" and close it and hope JuliaTagBot will be able to write comments on it in future?

Originally posted by @anchal-physics in #253

[DilumAluthge]

From this log (https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/actions/runs/12960528186/job/36154514185):

[ Info: Processing pull request 123693
[ Info: Processing version v2.0.1 of ProjectTorreyPines/IMASggd.jl
[ Info: TagBot is not enabled on ProjectTorreyPines/IMASggd.jl

The basic problem here is that TagBotTriggers doesn't work if you are using reusable workflows.

You need to actually have the text JuliaRegistries/TagBot in a file matching .github/workflows/*.yml.

[anchal-physics]

Aha, I knew it has some condition like that. Can I just place JuliaRegistries/TagBot in a comment in the calling action file or does it have to be readable by a yaml parser?

[DilumAluthge]

A comment should work.

You basically just need to satisfy https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/RegistryCI.jl/blob/bb4aae01e77310cdaf33ea536f8b2d721aa3e25a/src/TagBot/TagBot.jl#L63