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Adds ownership to this repository:

  1. A change to a team's member file needs that team's approval. CODEOWNERS has /team-members/<team>.csv @osac-project/<team> for each team that can be a code owner (visible and with write access here: the 19 contributor teams of teams.csv), and the repository's branch protection now has require_code_owner_reviews = true. For example, Add LinskId as member #285 (team-members/wg-vmaas.csv, fulfillment-wg.csv, members.csv) would need a member of wg-vmaas.
  2. Every pull request needs an approval from you (github-config-owners, a new team of one person, team-members/github-config-owners.csv, with push access here), through a new ruleset owner-review with a required reviewer for **. CODEOWNERS cannot do this: it takes one owner per path (any of the listed owners is enough), so "the team AND the owner" for a team file is not something it can say. The ruleset adds the owner on top of the code owner of the file.

Existing rules stay: 2 approvals in all, the pre-commit check, admin bypass.

Decisions I took, please check

  • A team of one for the owner. The ruleset's required reviewers take teams only. Alternative: use an existing team you are in (org-admins, wg-leads, ...) but those have other members.
  • Teams that cannot be code owners get no rule: fulfillment-wg, observability-wg, personas-wg, documentation-wg and org-admins (secret) and ci-duty (no access here). Their files need only the owner's approval. Making any of them an owner means making it visible and giving it access.
  • Sensitive teams approve their own file: managers, architects, wg-leads, contributors and wg-infra are code owners of their own member files, as asked. Say if some of them should be left to the owner only.
  • A pull request of an owner cannot be approved by the author. It is approved by someone else, or merged by an organization admin, who may bypass the ruleset (the same bypass the status checks ruleset has).
  • Required reviewers is a beta feature of GitHub rulesets. The pattern ** is my reading of GitHub's syntax: check in the ruleset after the apply that it shows "required reviewers: github-config-owners" for all files.

Not checked

tofu fmt and tofu validate run in CI only (I have no tofu here, and could not install one). The ruleset takes reviewer.id as a number: tonumber(github_team.all["github-config-owners"].id). After the apply, open any pull request and look at the reviewers and the merge box.

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Summary

  • Repository governance: CODEOWNERS assigns 19 team-member CSV files to their corresponding teams. Applicable files require approval from the listed team. The owner-review ruleset requires approval from github-config-owners for pull requests to the default branch.
  • Access and branch rules: Terraform changes the standard approval requirement from two approvals to one. It enables code-owner reviews and stale-approval dismissal, retains the pre-commit check and manager bypass, and grants github-config-owners push access. An active ruleset requires approval from that team and permits organization-admin bypass.
  • CI and merge behavior: The Auto-merge workflow runs after pre-commit completes for a pull-request event. It finds open pull requests for the completed commit that target the default branch and enables squash auto-merge, except for drafts, pull requests with auto-merge already enabled, or pull requests whose head commit has changed. The supplied summary reports that the workflow does not check out or run pull-request code. It also reports that the workflow token does not trigger apply.yaml; that workflow runs on its schedule or manually. The pre-commit workflow also runs when a pull request is marked ready for review.
  • Provider and documentation: The GitHub provider constraint changes to ~> 6.13, with version 6.13.0 locked. The README documents approval, auto-merge, and team-file ownership requirements.
  • Compatibility and validation: These changes affect repository governance and merge behavior. Pull requests require one standard approval instead of two, plus any applicable code-owner and owner approvals. No API, controller, database, or authentication-interface changes are documented. No test results are supplied. The PR description reports that tofu fmt and tofu validate were not run locally and asks for verification of required-reviewer behavior after apply.

Risk classification

risk:ask (provisional). The supplied context does not provide the criteria for risk:ship, risk:show, or risk:ask, so no specific criterion can be verified. risk:show is a nearby possibility because this change affects repository-wide approval and merge controls, but the available evidence does not establish its criteria or show that they are met.

Auto-merge (added)

A pull request now merges by itself once it has what it needs (.github/workflows/auto-merge.yaml): the owner's approval, the team's approval for a team file, and a green pre-commit. When pre-commit ends for a pull request, the workflow turns on GitHub's auto-merge for it if it targets the default branch and is not a draft; GitHub then merges it the moment the rules are met, and not before.

  • It runs as a workflow_run of pre-commit, as a run of the default branch: nothing of the pull request is checked out or run, and it adds no row to a pull request. (An earlier version used pull_request_target, which GitHub blocks by default in public repositories from 2 December 2026, with brownouts on 9 and 16 November.)
  • Because nothing waits for a person any more, a new commit now drops the approvals: dismiss_stale_reviews = true on the branch protection, and dismiss_stale_reviews_on_push on the owner-review ruleset. Without it an approved pull request could be changed and merge at once.
  • Required approvals go from 2 to 1. The owner (ruleset) and the code owner (team files) are separate requirements, so a team-file pull request still needs two different people, except when one person is in both groups: you are in architects, wg-leads and wg-infra, so your own approval satisfies both on those three files. Say if you want to keep 2 (then a second person is always needed).
  • To hold a pull request: make it a draft, or request changes.
  • The merge is made with the workflow's GITHUB_TOKEN (the config app has no contents: write), and a merge made with it starts no workflow, so apply.yaml follows on its schedule (every 4 hours) or by hand, not at once. I have not seen this happen here yet.

Provider

Provider 6.12.1 cannot read the team reviewer id of a ruleset (the API returns it as a string; fixed in go-github 86, so in provider 6.13), and an apply would fail after GitHub created the ruleset, which can leave a duplicate on the next apply. The constraint is ~> 6.13, and the lock holds 6.13.0 with the zh: hashes of its release (I have no tofu here: tofu init adds the hash for the machine it runs on).

A change to team-members/<team>.csv needs an approval from that team
(CODEOWNERS, with code owner reviews turned on), and every pull
request needs an approval from github-config-owners, a team of one
person, through a ruleset with required reviewers: CODEOWNERS cannot
ask for two different owners of one path.

Signed-off-by: Elior Erez <eerez@redhat.com>
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The changes configure repository review requirements, assign team-member files to CODEOWNERS teams, document merge conditions, and add a workflow that enables squash auto-merge for eligible pull requests.

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Review policy and auto-merge

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure review requirements
versions.tf, .terraform.lock.hcl, repositories.tf, CODEOWNERS, README.md
The repository requires one approval, code-owner reviews, and dismissal of stale reviews. An active default-branch ruleset requires approval from github-config-owners and allows organization admins to bypass it. CODEOWNERS maps 19 team-member CSV files to their corresponding teams. The README documents approval and merge requirements. The GitHub provider constraint and lock entry update to version 6.13.
Enable eligible squash auto-merges
.github/workflows/pre-commit.yaml, .github/workflows/auto-merge.yaml
The pre-commit workflow explicitly lists pull-request activity types. After a pre-commit run completes, the auto-merge workflow finds matching open pull requests targeting the default branch. It skips drafts, pull requests with auto-merge already enabled, and pull requests whose head SHA has changed. It enables squash auto-merge for the remaining matches.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PreCommit as pre-commit workflow
  participant AutoMerge as Auto-merge workflow
  participant GitHub as GitHub pull requests
  PreCommit->>AutoMerge: completed workflow_run event
  AutoMerge->>GitHub: Find open pull requests for head SHA and default branch
  GitHub-->>AutoMerge: Return matching pull requests
  AutoMerge->>GitHub: Enable squash auto-merge for eligible pull requests
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Title check Passed The title names the main change: ownership for github-config through team files and an owner. The changeset adds CODEOWNERS entries for team member CSV files, a github-config-owners approval ruleset, …
Docstring Coverage Passed No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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The title names the main change: ownership for github-config through team files and an owner. The changeset adds CODEOWNERS entries for team member CSV files, a github-config-owners approval ruleset, and related repository settings. The "NO-ISSUE" prefix is a tracking label, not a description, and does not affect the result. The title is specific and matches the changeset, so the check passes.

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Comment thread CODEOWNERS Resolved
Comment thread repositories.tf
Comment on lines +102 to +110
required_reviewers {
minimum_approvals = 1
file_patterns = ["**"]

reviewer {
id = tonumber(github_team.all["github-config-owners"].id)
type = "Team"
}
}

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Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
# Find the pinned integrations/github provider version.
fd -HI -t f -e hcl -e tf 'versions|providers|main|\.terraform\.lock' . | head -20
rg -n -C3 'integrations/github|opentofu/github' --glob '*.tf' --glob '.terraform.lock.hcl'

Repository: osac-project/github-config

Length of output: 1332


Web query:

integrations/terraform-provider-github issue 3214 required_reviewers reviewer id cannot unmarshal string into int64 v6.11.1 v6.12.1 v6.13.0 fix

Result:

Sources consulted:
- [BUG]: github_repository_ruleset fails with cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field RepositoryRuleset.rules.required_reviewers.reviewer.id of type int64 · Issue #3214 · integrations/terraform-provider-github · GitHub — GitHub issue 3214 in integrations/terraform-provider-github (lin…[truncated]
- Releases · integrations/terraform-provider-github · GitHub — https://github.com/integrations/terraform-provider-github/releases
- terraform-provider-github/docs/resources/repository_ruleset.md at main · integrations/terraform-provider-github · GitHub — https://github.com/integrations/terraform-provider-github/blob/main/docs/resources/repository_ruleset.md
- terraform-provider-github/docs/resources/organization_ruleset.md at main · integrations/terraform-provider-github · GitHub — https://github.com/integrations/terraform-provider-github/blob/main/docs/resources/organization_ruleset.md
- …and 12 more

Raise the provider floor to v6.13.0 before merge.

The required_reviewers team reviewer fails on integrations/github v6.11.1. The provider cannot parse the team reviewer id returned by the GitHub API, which is a string. The ruleset can be created on GitHub while the apply fails before Terraform writes state. A later apply can then create a duplicate ruleset or fail with a name-uniqueness error. The fix is tracked against v6.13.0. The lock file pins 6.12.1, and the 6.12.x notes list no fix. The lock file can therefore resolve to an affected version.

Raise the constraint in versions.tf and refresh the lock file:

Suggested fix
   required_providers {
     github = {
       source  = "integrations/github"
-      version = "~> 6.0"
+      version = "~> 6.13"
     }
   }

After the change, run tofu init -upgrade so .terraform.lock.hcl resolves to a 6.13.x release. tofu validate does not catch this failure because the error comes from the API response at apply time.

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Review comment at @repositories.tf around lines 102 - 110:
Raise the integrations/github provider constraint in required_providers from ~>
6.0 to ~> 6.13, then refresh the lock file so it resolves to a 6.13.x release or
later within that constraint. Keep the change limited to the provider version
requirement and its lock-file resolution.

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The owner-review ruleset covers the default branch only, so the
CODEOWNERS comment and the README say so. Required reviewers came in
provider 6.11, so the constraint is ~> 6.11 (the lock stays on 6.12.1).

Signed-off-by: Elior Erez <eerez@redhat.com>

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Comment thread README.md Resolved
A workflow turns on GitHub's auto-merge for every pull request that
is not a draft, so it merges the moment the owner, the team of a team
file, the other approvals and pre-commit are there. Because nothing
waits for a person any more, a new commit must drop the approvals
(dismiss_stale_reviews, and on push for the owner ruleset), and one
approval besides the owner's is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Elior Erez <eerez@redhat.com>

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Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-merge.yaml Resolved
Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-merge.yaml Resolved
Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-merge.yaml Resolved
Comment thread repositories.tf Resolved
Provider 6.12.1 cannot read the team reviewer id of a ruleset (fixed
in go-github 86, so in provider 6.13), and the apply would fail after
GitHub created the ruleset: require ~> 6.13 and lock 6.13.0 (zh
hashes of its release; tofu init adds the local one).

pull_request_target is blocked by default in public repositories
from 2 December, so auto-merge runs when pre-commit ends instead, for
pull requests to the default branch only, and adds no row to a pull
request. The README says that a pull request written by the only
owner can be merged only by an organization admin.

Signed-off-by: Elior Erez <eerez@redhat.com>

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Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-merge.yaml Resolved
Auto-merge starts when pre-commit ends and skips a draft, and
marking a pull request ready did not start another pre-commit run,
so it would not have been turned on until a new commit. Add
ready_for_review to the pull request types, with the default ones.

Signed-off-by: Elior Erez <eerez@redhat.com>
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