Since Scylla is a public repo, when we create a fork, it doesn't fork the team and permissions (unlike private repos where it does).
When we have a backport PR with conflicts, the developers need to be able to update the branch to fix the conflicts. To do so, we modified the logic of the backport automation as follows:
- Every backport PR (with and without conflicts) will be open directly on the `scylladbbot` fork repo
- When there are conflicts, an email will be sent to the original PR author with an invitation to become a contributor in the `scylladbbot` fork with `push` permissions. This will happen only once if Auther is not a contributor.
- Together with sending the invite, all backport labels will be removed and a comment will be added to the original PR with instructions
- The PR author must add the backport labels after the invitation is accepted
Fixes: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/18973Closesscylladb/scylladb#21401
`Exception` could be too general, what we really care about is
`GithubException`. so let's catch the latter instead for better
readability.
Signed-off-by: Kefu Chai <kefu.chai@scylladb.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#21364
Adding an auto-backport.py script to handle backport automation instead of Mergify.
The rules of backport are as follows:
* Merged or Closed PRs with any backport/x.y label (one or more) and promoted-to-master label
* Backport PR will be automatically assigned to the original PR author
* In case of conflicts the backport PR will be open in the original autoor fork in draft mode. This will give the PR owner the option to resolve conflicts and push those changes to the PR branch (Today in Scylla when we have conflicts, the developers are forced to open another PR and manually close the backport PR opened by Mergify)
* Fixing cherry-pick the wrong commit SHA. With the new script, we always take the SHA from the stable branch
* Support backport for enterprise releases (from Enterprise branch)
Fixes: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/18973Closesscylladb/scylladb#21302
