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Renovate Automerge
Propose to enable auto-merges by Renovate to prevent multiple PRs clogging up the space. We can configure it to merge only if CI passes.
Refer to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70453901/configure-renovate-bot-to-merge-minor-and-patch-updates-automatically
I believe automerge is already enabled, at least from what I can see in the renovate.json. Is there a misconfiguration or something?
According to the StackOverflow post, we should allow auto-merge in the GitHub repository settings too for it to work. Will need help from Prof @damithc to enable it.
@joeng03 I've updated repo settings to allow auto-merging and auto-deleting of the branch. The master branch is already protected in the suggested by the s/o post.
Automerging defaults to using Pull Requests (automergeType="pr"). In that case Renovate first creates a branch and associated Pull Request, and then automerges the PR on a subsequent run once it detects the PR's status checks are "green". If by the next run the PR is already behind the base branch it will be automatically rebased, because Renovate only automerges branches which are up-to-date and green. If Renovate is scheduled for hourly runs on the repository but commits are made every 15 minutes to the main branch, then an automerge like this will keep getting deferred with every rebase.
We'll have to wait for a day where there's no merges in the previous day to check if the current config works properly.
For now, I'll merge the ones that pass CI to free up our CI resources.