microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
Consider Adding a Bot to Automate Backports
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Area: Issue Management
Area: Release Process
Engineering Improvement Candidate
enhancement
Needs: Dev Design
Workstream: ES Compliance SFI
- Dominant language
- C++
- Stars
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- Forks
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- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
We already have working logic for programmatic three way merge in override-tools. We should add a CI task that periodically cherry-picks PRs with a "Backport to xxx" tag and creates backport PRs.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the existing logic in override-tools and the repository's CI configuration. Trace how a periodic task could identify pull requests with a "Backport to xxx" tag, perform the existing three-way merge, and create backport pull requests. Done means the automation reliably processes tagged pull requests and opens the expected backport PRs.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- ci-cd, devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100