Actions | Introduce auto-assign-pr workflow by cheenamalhotra · Pull Request #4275 · dotnet/SqlClient

cheenamalhotra · 2026-05-12T01:53:12Z

Summary

Adds a GitHub Actions workflow to auto-assign up to 2 assignees to PRs once they are open, non-draft, and associated with a milestone.

What changed

Added PR triggers for opened, reopened, ready_for_review, and milestoned
Only runs for qualifying PRs with draft == false and milestone != null
Preserves existing assignees and only adds new ones when fewer than 2 are assigned
Excludes the PR author from assignment
Selects assignees from the configured 6-person pool based on the lowest number of active open assigned PRs
Uses pulls.list pagination instead of Search API calls to avoid search rate-limit pressure
Randomizes tie-breaking before sorting by workload

Validation

Reviewed qualifying PR trigger conditions
Reviewed additive assignment behavior for 0 or 1 existing assignee
Reviewed edge cases for author exclusion, tie handling, and candidate exhaustion
Reviewed action runs successfully on PRs created from same repo branches.
Need to review actions on fork-based PRs after this actions is available on 'main' branch, which will come under 'pull_request_target' event.

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This PR introduces a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically assigns up to two assignees to qualifying pull requests (non-draft, milestone set), selecting from a fixed pool and balancing based on current open-PR assignment load.

Changes:

Added a new auto-assign-pr workflow triggered by PR lifecycle + milestone events.
Implemented workload calculation via pulls.list pagination and randomized tie-breaking.
Applied additive assignee updates (preserving existing assignees, excluding PR author).

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paulmedynski · 2026-06-05T13:28:52Z

I've added a few more reviewers - only need one more admin to approve. Let's get this merged.

Actions | Introduce auto-assign-pr workflow

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cheenamalhotra requested a review from a team as a code owner May 12, 2026 01:53

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github-project-automation Bot moved this to To triage in SqlClient Board May 12, 2026

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Permissions fix

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Fix auto-assign workflow permissions and PR-state race handling

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Fix variables

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Fix permissions

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cheenamalhotra moved this from Waiting for customer to In review in SqlClient Board Jun 2, 2026

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Test: Test actions workflow from fork

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cheenamalhotra force-pushed the dev/cheena/auto-assign-prs branch from b622250 to 1e0291b Compare June 2, 2026 05:40

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Fix permissions

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Change back to pull_request_target event

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