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
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