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.

Demo

Action on this PR ran successfully:

Copilot

Pull request overview

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).

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot

Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 1 out of 1 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot

Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 1 out of 1 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/sessions/bc01d92e-6a2a-4100-9819-bd6add127662 Co-authored-by: cheenamalhotra <13396919+cheenamalhotra@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot

Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 1 out of 1 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/sessions/f7cc4b22-e560-46ff-bc90-898ef69a406a Co-authored-by: cheenamalhotra <13396919+cheenamalhotra@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot

Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 1 out of 1 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/sessions/f1fa5751-ee7b-4a10-8c6b-bbabaea221ae Co-authored-by: cheenamalhotra <13396919+cheenamalhotra@users.noreply.github.com>

Actions | Introduce auto-assign-pr workflow

059f419

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

github-project-automation Bot added this to SqlClient Board May 12, 2026

Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings May 12, 2026 01:53

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

cheenamalhotra added this to the 7.1.0-preview2 milestone May 12, 2026

Copilot started reviewing on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 12, 2026 01:53 View session

Permissions fix

a63f1ec

cheenamalhotra modified the milestone: 7.1.0-preview2 May 12, 2026

github-actions Bot assigned benrr101 and priyankatiwari08 May 12, 2026

Copilot AI reviewed May 12, 2026

View reviewed changes

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml Outdated

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml

Enable workflow only on 'pull_request_target' event.

814bd7b

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings May 12, 2026 01:58

cheenamalhotra moved this from To triage to In review in SqlClient Board May 12, 2026

Copilot started reviewing on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 12, 2026 01:59 View session

Copilot AI reviewed May 12, 2026

View reviewed changes

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml Outdated

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml Outdated

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml Outdated

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml Outdated

Potential fix for pull request finding

43f68b5

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings May 12, 2026 02:11

Copilot started reviewing on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 12, 2026 02:12 View session

Apply suggestions from code review

34fa483

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot AI reviewed May 12, 2026

View reviewed changes

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml

Copilot started work on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 12, 2026 02:27 View session

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

6d4594b

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/sessions/bc01d92e-6a2a-4100-9819-bd6add127662 Co-authored-by: cheenamalhotra <13396919+cheenamalhotra@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot finished work on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 12, 2026 02:30

cheenamalhotra marked this pull request as draft May 12, 2026 03:48

cheenamalhotra marked this pull request as ready for review May 12, 2026 03:48

Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings May 12, 2026 03:48

Copilot started reviewing on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 12, 2026 03:48 View session

Copilot AI reviewed May 12, 2026

View reviewed changes

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml

apoorvdeshmukh reviewed May 12, 2026

View reviewed changes

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml

priyankatiwari08 reviewed May 12, 2026

View reviewed changes

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml Outdated

Copilot started work on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 13, 2026 02:13 View session

Make auto-assign pool configurable via repo variables

8c80c88

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/sessions/f7cc4b22-e560-46ff-bc90-898ef69a406a Co-authored-by: cheenamalhotra <13396919+cheenamalhotra@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot stopped work on behalf of cheenamalhotra due to an error May 13, 2026 02:15
The session was cancelled by the user.

Use variable for pool

01e5ef0

Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings May 13, 2026 02:21

Copilot started reviewing on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 13, 2026 02:21 View session

cheenamalhotra requested review from apoorvdeshmukh and priyankatiwari08 May 13, 2026 02:21

Copilot AI reviewed May 13, 2026

View reviewed changes

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml

Comment thread .github/workflows/auto-assign-pr.yml Outdated

Copilot started work on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 13, 2026 02:24 View session

Fix auto-assign workflow variable mismatch and duplicate declarations

920f08b

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/sessions/f1fa5751-ee7b-4a10-8c6b-bbabaea221ae Co-authored-by: cheenamalhotra <13396919+cheenamalhotra@users.noreply.github.com>

Copilot finished work on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 13, 2026 02:27

Copilot started work on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 13, 2026 02:27 View session

Copilot finished work on behalf of cheenamalhotra May 13, 2026 02:29

Provide feedback

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly

Actions | Introduce auto-assign-pr workflow#4275

Actions | Introduce auto-assign-pr workflow#4275
cheenamalhotra wants to merge 9 commits into
mainfrom
dev/cheena/auto-assign-prs

cheenamalhotra commented May 12, 2026 •

edited

Loading

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Reviewers

Assignees

Labels

Projects

Milestone

Development

Uh oh!

6 participants

Conversation

cheenamalhotra commented May 12, 2026 • edited Loading Uh oh! There was an error while loading. Please reload this page.

Uh oh!

Summary

What changed

Validation

Demo

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

Pull request overview

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

Pull request overview

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

Pull request overview

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

Pull request overview

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

Pull request overview

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Reviewers

Assignees

Labels

Projects

Milestone

Development

Uh oh!

6 participants

cheenamalhotra commented May 12, 2026 •

edited

Loading