Hi Jenkins Community,
We’re using the GitHub Branch Source Plugin with a GitHub Organization Folder, configured to use a GitHub App for increased API token limits and webhooks (per-repo and organization-level repository events).
However, when a new repository is created, it still requires a full organization scan to be discovered by Jenkins.
Is this expected behavior?
From inspecting the logs and the code, it seems so: github-branch-source-plugin/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/github_branch_source/GitHubRepositoryEventSubscriber.java at 77b6542df5a8b10fe7d0ed6aa2b9a56dce8059ee · jenkinsci/github-branch-source-plugin · GitHub (I see "Repository {0} was created but it is empty, will be ignored" line in the logs when I create a new repository and webhook is processed at Jenkins controller).
The new repository is not a fork. But, … we use a repository creation pipeline, that automatically commits a Jenkinsfile right away—so in theory, it should be discoverable immediately.
But since it isn’t and our organization scan takes several hours due to API rate limits, I’m wondering:
- Is it really expected that a full org scan is required for the repository to appear in the GitHub Organization Folder?
- Or is there a way to make webhook events trigger discovery without relying on the scan?
Thanks!
Jenkins setup:
Jenkins: 2.462.3
OS: Linux - 6.1.0-26-amd64
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