What exactly is supposed to happen?!

[smileBeda]

I seem confused as of what the reminder command actually is suppose to do.

1. I set a reminder following the syntax /reminder (what) (when)
2. This adds the reminder tag and also a follow up comment by bot ==> OK
3. Nothing ever happens after that ==> NOK

I would expect to actually be reminded about the issue, at the given time, by email, or whatever - IPoAC or else is fine with me too. But a reminder should remind me!

Do I misunderstand the tool? If this just adds the tag and comment, it is not very useful, I can do that myself.

[stdavis]

Did you implement the companion action in your repo?

[smileBeda]

I have two workflows:

• scheduled.yml

name: Scheduled Events

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 * * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  issues: write

jobs:
  reminder:
    name: Notify
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: ⚠️ Notify
      uses: agrc/reminder-action@v1

• issue_comment.yml

name: Issue Comment Events

on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created, edited]

jobs:
  reminder:
    name: Check for reminder
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: 🔍 Check for reminder
        uses: agrc/create-reminder-action@v1

So I think yes?

And I can see the actions running, and succeeding.

Again.. what exactly is supposed to happen?

1. I comment with /reminder (what) (when)
2. It creates a new comment with contents like @username set a reminder for 6/27/2024
3. ... ? Nothing happens ever, other than the tag reminder gets removed, as I noted, once the date expires, but I get no email, no new comment, zero nada zilch.

Can you let me know what should happen?

[stdavis]

Here's an example of what should happen:

I'd be interested in taking a look at the logs for scheduled events the first time it runs after your reminder time.

[stdavis]

@smileBeda Did you ever get this working?

[smileBeda]

Sorry for not replying earlier. Indeed I did suddenly get a reminder I had set the way you show in your screenshot (apart of the @ which was set to to in my case but I still got the mail and saw the comment)

I've then set another reminder to see if it would work and it didn't.
I can't understand why one works and the other not, it seems randomly applying.

When you say looking at the logs - you mean action logs? The repo is private so probably I couldn't have you look directly at it, but they actually seem all fine so far, I can't see any errors.

[stdavis]

Yes, the action logs for both the agrc/reminder-action and agrc/create-reminder-action would be helpful in diagnosing your issue. Examples of your comments would be helpful as well. Perhaps you could reproduce your issue in a public repository so that we can take a look at it?

[smileBeda]

/reminder To provide public example of this issue, if replicable, in 1 Month

[steveoh]

/reminder To provide public example of this issue, if replicable, in 1 Month

You used the wrong trigger slash command here. What are you wanting to do and why?

[smileBeda]

Well I guess that is what is the issue then? I am 100% sure I copy pasted that command from the readme at some point, also see my opening comment, I use the same reference to /reminder
Yet, I see in the readme it is /remind me [what] [when]

And I guess that is what's going on, somehow I interchange reminder with remind.

So again, I will set myself a reminder here to come back, if its not solved on my own projects, in a mont.
/remind me to provide details for replicable issue in 1 month

[github-actions]

@smileBeda set a reminder for 8/12/2024

[github-actions]

👋 @smileBeda, provide details for replicable issue

[smileBeda]

Well, here we go - this reminder worked, and so did 2 more in my own repo since.
I guess we can close this, I do not know what changed, but it works.