Andrew Svoboda

While I think this is friendly, Github repo settings can also prevent users from merging PRs unless they match coming from a specific app. One alternative solution could be just...

I think the following statement is probably where the confusion lies: > In my opinion, using policy bot is supposed to replace the need for other required status checks When...

Hey @justinwyer , Can you elaborate on your use-case? Internally, we make policy-bot a required status check. Github will always mark a required status check as pending, which is perhaps...

Ah okay, so the way we handle this is by writing policies that look something like the following [1]. Effectively, bots require 0 approvals when they touch certain files (think...

In practice it means PRs that don't match show up as pending (not failed), which I don't think is unreasonable. It means the check is pending approval. If policy-bot doesn't...

cc @wlynch / @bradleyfalzon when you get a chance, please and thanks!