Automatic Approval Workflow

[jmlemay99]

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Bug

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General

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I have configured a CI framework in GitHub between several production repositories. When certain PRs merge into some of the repos, we create tagged releases, then send PRs to the other repositories, updating them to use the new release.

In the receiving repositories, I created automatic approval workflows. Those workflows trigger on the PR "labeled" event. The workflow checks that the PR was submitted by our faceless bot, and it checks for certain label values. If it finds what it needs, it will approve the PR and set the auto-merge flag.

The problem is that when the PR checks complete, the PR is not getting bumped over to the merge queue automatically and as expected. To work around this, I can go into the PR, un-set and then re-set auto-merge. But it's not sustainable for a human to go into these PRs and manually kick them into the merge queue. That's exactly what auto-merge is supposed to do. One bit of potential evidence is that this workflow worked as expected before we turned on the merge queue and required checks.

Anyone have ideas why this isn't working?

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