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Auto-merge Backport PRs in documentation-website repo #6400

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Naarcha-AWS opened this issue Feb 9, 2024 · 13 comments
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Auto-merge Backport PRs in documentation-website repo #6400

Naarcha-AWS opened this issue Feb 9, 2024 · 13 comments
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Naarcha-AWS commented Feb 9, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

The Backport tool, while efficient, can occasionally cause friction when a maintainer forgets to merge a PR. Furthermore, the documentation-website repo currently requires that all PRs be "approved", including Backports, which means that maintainers need to take an extra-step to merge a Backport PR even when that PR has passed all checks.

Describe the solution you'd like

  • Remove the requirement for Backport PRs to require approvals, if possible.
  • If a Backport PR passes all pipeline and implementations tests, automatically merge that PR upon approval.

Describe alternatives you've considered

We've considered turning on the auto-merge feature for all PRs. However, the quality-control process for documentation PRs prevents us from auto-merging PRs to the main branch, since all PRs must not only pass code-review, but also editorial review. This means that, even though a PR may technically pass GitHub's and organizations requirements for merging, it might not pass the documentation teams quality requirements.

Additional context

For additional information, see #6305

More changes on other repos for the similar implementation:

@Naarcha-AWS Naarcha-AWS added enhancement New feature or request untriaged labels Feb 9, 2024
@Naarcha-AWS Naarcha-AWS changed the title Automerge Backport PRs in documentation-website repo Auto-merge Backport PRs in documentation-website repo Feb 9, 2024
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Transferring to documentation repo.

@rishabh6788 rishabh6788 transferred this issue from opensearch-project/opensearch-build Feb 13, 2024
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bbarani commented Feb 14, 2024

@rishabh6788 will discuss with @Naarcha-AWS to understand the requirements. CC: @hdhalter

@hdhalter hdhalter added the 1 - Backlog - DOC Doc writer assigned to issue responsible for creating PR. label Feb 17, 2024
@peterzhuamazon peterzhuamazon self-assigned this Mar 28, 2024
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Have discussion with @Naarcha-AWS offline and will take a look with auto approval before auto merging.

Thanks.

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Added backport remove rule so they can properly remove the branches now.

Screenshot 2024-03-28 at 4 43 21 PM

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peterzhuamazon commented Mar 28, 2024

Will remove these:


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peterzhuamazon commented Mar 28, 2024

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Still prefer flow: Add backport label -> Backport PR created -> assume trigger bot token -> Approve by trigger bot -> Wait for status check to complete -> Automerge -> Remove backport branch.

We'd also like to receive some kind of notification if there is a merge conflict on the backport PR.

@Naarcha-AWS Naarcha-AWS added 2 - In progress Issue/PR: The issue or PR is in progress. and removed 1 - Backlog - DOC Doc writer assigned to issue responsible for creating PR. labels Mar 28, 2024
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Still prefer flow: Add backport label -> Backport PR created -> assume trigger bot token -> Approve by trigger bot -> Wait for status check to complete -> Automerge -> Remove backport branch.

We'd also like to receive some kind of notification if there is a merge conflict on the backport PR.

That notification will appear if the status checks don't complete, I believe.

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Will need to tweak the backport workflow source code to add a label, or find the PR number and use gh to add a label through workflow files.

https://github.com/VachaShah/backport

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peterzhuamazon commented Apr 4, 2024

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This is completed now for docs team.
All the other repos changes will be in META:

Thanks.

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