[LEGAL-599] Using GitHub's "Merge Queue" functionality

• Type: Question
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martijn Visser
• Created: 27/Jan/22 08:15
• Updated: 01/Aug/24 14:59

Description

Recently GitHub has announced the limited beta of their "Pull Request Merge Queue" functionality. More information can be found at https://github.blog/changelog/2021-10-27-pull-request-merge-queue-limited-beta/

This seems like an interesting functionality for a lot of ASF projects, given that there are a lot of projects that have a high volume of changes from multiple users being merged every day. For example, the Apache Flink project is in this situation.

This functionality does create temporary branches for the queues. Given the discussion around Dependabot, I'm wondering what the ASF thinks of this feature and if it could potentially be enabled for ASF projects. For context, I've opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-589 last month to get clarification on Dependabot and creating branches in ASF repos. Given that resolution, I would expect that this functionality could also be allowed under the same conditions, but I wanted to get confirmation from Legal upfront.

(Note: I've posted this question in November on the [e-mail] mailing list. There are other ASF projects who are also interested in this.)

Issue Links

• relates to: LEGAL-589 Can it be allowed Dependabot to create branches within a repo