Automating Team Sign-Off with Open Bug Acknowledgment

### What is this about?

We want to formalize our release sign-off process within GitHub by automatically prompting each team to acknowledge their outstanding bugs before confirming sign-off. Specifically, when a team checks its “sign-off” checkbox in a release PR description, an automated workflow should pull the list of open bugs labeled with both the release (e.g., regression-RC-7.42) and the team (e.g., team-assets), then prompt the team to accept or cancel the acknowledgment. Those unresolved bugs will be recorded in a PR comment for transparency and accountability if accepted.

### Scenario

**As a** team member responsible for release sign-off,
**I want** an automated prompt that shows me all unresolved bugs relevant to my team when I check my sign-off box,
**so that** I can clearly see which issues remain outstanding, accept accountability for them, and ensure that the release decision is transparent.

**Scenario**
1. A release PR is created with a description that includes a Team Sign-Off checklist, for example:
```
# Team sign-off checklist
- [ ] Accounts
- [ ] Assets
```

2. When the Assets team checks its box:

- A GitHub Actions workflow detects the checkbox update and fetches all open issues labeled with:
-- regression-RC-7.42
-- team-assets
-- type-bug
- A window or confirmation prompt informs the Assets team how many unresolved bugs exist, broken down by severity (e.g., sev0, sev1, sev2, sev3).
- It then asks the team to either confirm or cancel their acknowledgment.

3. Upon confirmation:
- The workflow posts a final comment listing the open bugs by severity and stating that Assets team has officially acknowledged these unresolved issues.
- If the team cancels, no final acknowledgment is recorded, and the PR remains unapproved by that team.

### Design

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### Technical Details

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### Threat Modeling Framework

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### Acceptance Criteria

**Acceptance Criteria**

**1. Automatic Detection**

- When a team’s box is checked in the PR, the workflow automatically fetches open issues matching the relevant labels (release, team, bug).

**2. Severity Breakdown**

- The system accurately classifies unresolved bugs by severity (e.g., sev1, sev2) in the prompt and the final comment.

**3. Confirmation Flow**

- The process includes an interactive step, enabling teams to confirm or cancel their acknowledgment.
- A final, visible comment is posted only if acknowledgment is confirmed.

**4. Transparency & Traceability**

- The final posted comment remains on the PR, documenting the team’s acceptance of shipping with those open bugs.

**5. Minimal Overhead**

- Once the box is checked, the only additional actions should be a quick prompt review and a slash command for confirmation or cancellation. No extra manual steps are required.

### Stakeholder review needed before the work gets merged

- [ ] Engineering (needed in most cases)
- [ ] Design
- [ ] Product
- [ ] QA (automation tests are required to pass before merging PRs but not all changes are covered by automation tests - please review if QA is needed beyond automation tests)
- [ ] Security
- [ ] Legal
- [ ] Marketing
- [ ] Management (please specify)
- [ ] Other (please specify)

### References

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The issue names no existing workflow, source file, or test entry point. Start by locating the release PR sign-off checklist handling and GitHub Actions configuration, then determine how issue labels and severity data are queried. Done means a checked team box supports confirmation or cancellation and records the acknowledged open bugs in a PR comment.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.