# Does anyone know why this repo's CompatHelper doesn't start CI?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-anyone-know-why-this-repos-compathelper-doesnt-start-ci/55061
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** github-actions
**Created:** [February 11, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-anyone-know-why-this-repos-compathelper-doesnt-start-ci/55061 "2021-02-11T14:21:35Z")
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#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-anyone-know-why-this-repos-compathelper-doesnt-start-ci/55061/1 "2021-02-11T14:21:35Z")

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Does anyone know why this repo’s CompatHelper doesn’t start CI? [https://github.com/SciML/DiffEqBayes.jl/pull/200](https://github.com/SciML/DiffEqBayes.jl/pull/200)

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#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-anyone-know-why-this-repos-compathelper-doesnt-start-ci/55061/2 "2021-02-11T16:19:41Z")

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The reason why the pull request opened by CompatHelper didn’t trigger the continuous integration (CI) job is because in GitHub Actions, by default a workflow (CompatHelper in this case) can’t trigger another workflow (CI in this case). One workaround is to use the most recent recommended setup for CompatHelper (check out the [`README.md`](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/CompatHelper.jl/blob/master/README.md)) which will use the SSH key `DOCUMENTER_KEY` to be able to trigger the CI job, provided that you have the key as a secret in your repository settings. Another, manual, workaround is to close and reopen the pull request: in this way the actor of the workflow will be you, not a GitHub Actions workflow, and so that would trigger CI as usual.
