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Create backport bot for cherry-pick PRs

Open sjberman opened this issue 3 months ago • 2 comments
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Bug fixes and other changes that we want to backport into release branches can add a lot of dev cycles. Making this process easier will reduce friction when doing releases.

We could use a bot with https://github.com/korthout/backport-action or https://github.com/marketplace/actions/backport-bot to simply add a label to a PR that we want backported into a release branch.

sjberman avatar Aug 05 '25 20:08 sjberman

@sjberman the kubernetes-ingress repo uses a github workflow to accomplish this right now: https://github.com/nginx/kubernetes-ingress/blob/main/.github/workflows/cherry-pick.yml

shaun-nx avatar Aug 13 '25 09:08 shaun-nx

fyi Currently, PR's created with GITHUB_TOKEN cannot trigger workflows & the bot cannot currently be used due to issues with SSO Once the SSO issue has been resolve the bot will be able to create PR's and trigger workflows

shaun-nx avatar Aug 13 '25 09:08 shaun-nx