Commit 18b30c8c authored by Emily's avatar Emily
Browse files

ci/github-script/bot: skip mergeability checks temporarily 

This is an experiment and can be reverted a few days from now; if
the results are positive on GitHub’s end, then we may want to make
the merge conflict checks run less frequently than the rest of the
labelling tasks.
parent eb493e4e

ci/github-script/bot.js

+12 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -145,10 +145,22 @@ module.exports = async ({ github, context, core, dry }) => { 


    // This API request is important for the merge-conflict label, because it triggers the

    // creation of a new test merge commit. This is needed to actually determine the state of a PR.

    //

    // NOTE (2025-12-15): Temporarily skipping mergeability checks here

    // on GitHub’s request to measure the impact of the resulting ref

    // writes on their internal metrics; merge conflicts resulting from

    // changes to target branches will not have labels applied for the

    // duration. The label should still be updated on pushes.

    //

    // TODO: Restore mergeability checks in some form after a few days

    // or when we hear back from GitHub.

    const pull_request = (

      await github.rest.pulls.get({

        ...context.repo,

        pull_number,

        // Undocumented parameter (as of 2025-12-15), added by GitHub

        // for us; stability unclear.

        skip_mergeability_checks: true,

      })

    ).data