[ARROW-218] Add option to use GitHub API token via environment variable when merging PRs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: Developer Tools
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15564
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 15/Jun/16 20:31
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:07
• Resolved: 16/Jun/16 17:50

Description

While the patch tool only requires public repo access, on shared networks, the GitHub API rate limit may be exceeded for unauthenticated requests. This patch will add an option to use a GitHub personal access token to authenticate