[jira] [Created] (INFRA-7918) Provide Spark with a github access token that allows closing PR's

["Patrick Wendell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Patrick Wendell created INFRA-7918:
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             Summary: Provide Spark with a github access token that allows closing PR's
                 Key: INFRA-7918
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7918
             Project: Infrastructure
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Git
            Reporter: Patrick Wendell


At present, we have no way for the committership to close pull requests on github. Since sometimes users abandon requests, this has lead to an infinitely growing queue on our github page.

https://github.com/apache/spark/pulls

As a short-term solution to this, would it be possible for infra to provide (via the private list) the Spark committership with a temporary API token that has the permission to close pull requests? Then we can write a small script that our committers can use to close them. You can create tokens here:

https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

I think this is a decent temporary solution because:

1. This token could have very limited permissions. The only permission would be to close pull requests. Closing requests doesn't do anything irreversible, the user can always open them up again.
2. If there are any issues, infra can immediately revoke/delete the token.

Let me know if you would consider this. I think it's a decent solution and right now this is becoming a bigger issue for us.



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