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Apply “draft trick” to process-dependabot-reusable.yaml - #475
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This change applies the “draft trick” to `process-dependabot-reusable.yaml`: instead of enabling “auto-merge” on the PR, it puts it into draft mode. This allows the removal of a PAT at the cost of two additional actions for maintainers that need to: 1. Approve the PR, 2. Put it into “Ready for review” state. If workflows are listening to `ready_for_review`, they will start, 3. Enable “auto-merge” on the PR.
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* Document “draft trick” This change documents the “draft trick” introduced in #475 and applies it to the `main` branch. * fix: remove PAT references
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Since the required build checks can now be started with the "Approve workflows to run" button, restore the pre-#475 behavior of enabling "auto-merge" on the PR: after a maintainer approves the PR and its workflow runs, the PR merges automatically once the required checks pass. Assisted-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Don't switch to "Draft mode" Since GitHub's June 11, 2026 change "Bot-created pull requests can run workflows if approved"[1], workflows triggered by the "Process Dependabot PR" push are no longer silently dropped, but created in an approval-required state. A maintainer can start the required build checks with the "Approve workflows to run" button, so parking the PR in draft mode is no longer necessary. Also drop the `pull-requests: write` permission, which was only needed to toggle draft mode, and explicitly opt into `persist-credentials` for the checkout, since the changelog commit push relies on it. [1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-11-bot-created-pull-requests-can-run-workflows-if-approved/ Assisted-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Enable auto-merge instead Since the required build checks can now be started with the "Approve workflows to run" button, restore the pre-#475 behavior of enabling "auto-merge" on the PR: after a maintainer approves the PR and its workflow runs, the PR merges automatically once the required checks pass. Assisted-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This change applies the “draft trick” to
process-dependabot-reusable.yaml: instead of enabling “auto-merge” on the PR, it puts it into draft mode. This allows the removal of a PAT at the cost of two additional actions for maintainers that need to:ready_for_review, they will start,