Remove Slack notifications for CI failures #30
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We were storing the Slack secrets on a CircleCI context [1]. Although we were also passing them to forks [2], it resulted on unauthorized builds for external contributions. We could work around the issue in two ways: - Having the secrets outside of any context, but that would compromise the security of the associated Slack channel for: - Send messages as @circleci notifications - Send messages to channels @circleci notifications isn't a member of - Upload, edit, and delete files as CircleCI notifications - Using CircleCI logic statements [3] to conditionally run jobs when `CIRCLECI_USERNAME` or `CIRCLE_PR_USERNAME` env vars [4] are in a list of allowed users. However, that would be something difficult to maintain, and there's no other way to check the user's role. Given that we don't find those trade-offs to be acceptable, we remove the integration for now. [1] - https://circleci.com/docs/contexts/ [2] - https://circleci.com/docs/oss/#pass-secrets-to-builds-from-forked-pull-requests [3] - https://circleci.com/docs/configuration-reference/#logic-statements [4] - https://circleci.com/docs/variables/
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Summary
We were storing the Slack secrets on a CircleCI context. Although we were also passing them to forks, it resulted on unauthorized builds for external contributions.
We could work around the issue in two ways:
CIRCLECI_USERNAMEorCIRCLE_PR_USERNAMEenv vars are in a list of allowed users. However, that would be something difficult to maintain, and there's no other way to check the user's role.Given that we don't find those trade-offs to be acceptable, we remove the integration for now.
Closes #4902
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