Commit 18b30c8c authored by Emily's avatar Emily
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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.
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@@ -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