# Strange emails from GitHub actions

**URL:** <https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/strange-emails-from-github-actions/148>\
**Category:** Syft\
**Created:** [September 26, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/strange-emails-from-github-actions/148 "2024-09-26T14:04:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![popey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/anchorecommunity.discourse.group/popey/32/429_2.png) [@popey](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/u/popey)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/strange-emails-from-github-actions/148/1 "2024-09-26T14:04:12Z")

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I [commented](https://github.com/anchore/syft/issues/3274#issuecomment-2376816621) on an issue and [closed](https://github.com/anchore/syft/issues/3274) it, and all I got was this lousy ~~t-shirt~~ GitHub Action [failure](https://github.com/anchore/syft/actions/runs/11052216675/job/30703800561) email. Am I holding it wrong?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/anchorecommunity/original/1X/79476d47043124ce5615a6059a0f2d485ff5d0c3.png)

Possibly one for @wagoodman as he [touched it last](https://github.com/anchore/syft/commits/main/.github/workflows/remove-awaiting-response-label.yaml).

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**Author:** ![kzantow](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/anchorecommunity.discourse.group/kzantow/32/17_2.png) [@kzantow](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/u/kzantow)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/strange-emails-from-github-actions/148/2 "2024-09-27T13:15:38Z")

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I ran into this when commenting on a PR. Fixed with: [fix: only remove awaiting response for issues, not PRs by kzantow · Pull Request #8 · anchore/workflows · GitHub](https://github.com/anchore/workflows/pull/8)

But I don’t think this fixes the case you ran in to.

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**Author:** ![willmurphy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/anchorecommunity.discourse.group/willmurphy/32/12_2.png) [@willmurphy](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/u/willmurphy)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/strange-emails-from-github-actions/148/3 "2024-09-27T13:29:58Z")

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I think @wagoodman had some plans to rethink how these workflows work, and we might as well discuss it here.

I think we’ve flip flopped a couple times from using labels to using project statuses to track when an issue is waiting for response from the requester.

It might be that we settle on project statuses because it doesn’t clutter up the audit trail on the issue.

When we do settle on an approach, that PR might be reverted (or changed to give a working code path for issues and PRs if necessary), because we want both issues and PRs to have the property that we can mark them as “awaiting response” and have that mark automatically removed when a user responds.

I wonder if there’s already something that does this? It’s a pretty common customer support / ticketing system flow…

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**Author:** ![kzantow](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/anchorecommunity.discourse.group/kzantow/32/17_2.png) [@kzantow](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/u/kzantow)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://anchorecommunity.discourse.group/t/strange-emails-from-github-actions/148/4 "2024-09-27T14:40:08Z")

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Regardless of the specifics how we are tracking this awaiting user input state, I just have to say that having these workflows centralized is really great!