Include triggering_actor in GitHub Workflow Runs

[julioz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We have a few workflows internally we'd like to aggregate metrics on. One of them is "who is the person who mostly triggers it per week?".

Describe the solution you'd like
The GitHub API for workflow runs includes triggering_actor as a field, and so does the GitHub Actions workflows UI.

Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A

Additional context
N/A

[graza-io]

@julioz

If you do some comparative testing, is the triggering_actor usually different from the actor?

I can see we don't include either at the current moment in time, however based on the SDK we're using to obtain the data, they don't seemingly have a concept of triggering_actor only actor struct here.

[julioz]

I believe that, for my specific use-case, actor should work fine, although triggering_actor can be different.

According to this post on when GitHub introduced the differentiation, a workflow will have a actor that is not the triggering_actor when it is a rerun.

That is:

1. Workflow W is executed by User A
2. Workflow W fails
3. Workflow W is executed by User T

In this case, actor = A, triggering_actor = T.

[graza-io]

Did some investigation, have now requested the relevant data be included in the go-github SDK on this issue

[julioz]

Thanks. Looking forward to this change (except I think you mean go-github and not go-gitlab).

[graza-io]

Yeah I did 😂 - sorry, I'm looking at things in both libraries now and I keep cross typing the names.

[graza-io]

SDK v54.0.0 contains the new field on struct - assuming no other breaking changes we should now be able to action this request.

[graza-io]

Looking at the breaking changes in versions between current and v54, only one stands out as potential issue:

• Issue/PR which changes all time.Time to internal type Timestamp, we do have the translation code for these so should be simple as updating where required.

[misraved]

Addressed in #332

Thanks @julioz and @graza-io for all the great work 👍 !!