Ability to configure GitHub Annotations

[drazisil-codecov]

Right now, the annotations can get quite noisy if Codecov detects a large number of indirect changes.

The current options are

• Off
• On

The suggested new options are

• Off
• On
• Direct changes only
• Indirect changes only

This comes from a customer request

[buondevid]

Hi, we just noticed that the GH GUI Annotations about coverage, when reviewing PRs, get too much in the way. They prove themselves useful for some teams, but too much of an annoyance for others¹. Could you please add some extra options to

github_checks:
annotations: false

Like something to only limit the annotation to certain type of files (like .py) or to be able to exclude certain users/teams from seeing them. Without that, we are kinda forced to disable the feature for now.

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[drazisil-codecov]

Hi @buondevid ,

Thanks for the comment. I had forgotten I filed this one 🤦‍♀️

@rohan-at-sentry Would love your eyes on this. <3

[rohan-at-sentry]

@buondevid - thanks for raising. I'm actively looking to gather feedback on annotations so this is timely.

Out of curiosity, did some of the teams that used this (before you turned it off) find it useful? In what way?

[buondevid]

yea, backenders kinda like it, their code is easier to test and can catch some new untested code, but for us frontenders is a bit too much: not all code is easily testable (or we don't have time for it), it also annotates weird pieces of code as untested... so yea, for us it gets too much in the way!