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Cache activity before opening retirement PRs - #120

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I hate those "whoops" issues that #100 creates. Here's one kind of dumb take on fixing it. Sorry for the bash overload. I didn't want to rewrite this in github script first.

I rewrote the thing in GitHub script.

What does it do? In short, we persist the latest observed merge activity and the first inactive observation between workflow runs using a GitHub workflow artifact. A missing /commits response now starts a confirmation window instead of immediately opening a retirement PR. The result is that cached positive activity can keep active committers from being retired when GitHub returns an empty result spuriously.


I don't really love the resulting code. I'd sort of like to rewrite the whole thing.

I rewrote the whole thing.


Fixes #100

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philiptaron requested a review from mweinelt July 8, 2026 22:11
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Awesome!

I won't pretend to have fully digested the bash impl, so don't be offended if I spot something worth commenting on later.

SGTM overall, though. Nice idea to mitigate GitHub's flakiness!

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Every one of your comments makes me want to rewrite it in github-script, @MattSturgeon :-)

Thanks for taking a look. I'll cogitate on these comments.

What does it do? In short, we persist the latest observed merge activity and the first inactive observation between workflow runs using a GitHub workflow artifact.
A missing `/commits` response now starts a confirmation window instead of immediately opening a retirement PR.
The result is that cached positive activity can keep active committers from being retired when GitHub returns an empty result spuriously.

Fixes NixOS#100
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I rewrote it in GitHub script.

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