Description of your changes

Following the discussion in issue #126 and on Slack I have added a new workflow called Dependabot PR auto-merge - auto-merge.yml.

that should run when these conditions happen:

• on-pull-request workflow runs and completes successfully. This means that all the checks around linting, unit tests, and code coverage have passed.
• The actor of the PR was dependabot.

At this point the workflow identifies and downloads locally the PR artifact, after which adds a review and merges the PR.

The idea behind this workflow is to automate repetitive & undifferentiated work for maintainers. The definition of the workflow is heavily inspired by the one used in the Java version of Powertools.

NOTE: This workflow relies on the existence of a repository secret called AUTOMERGE_DEPENDABOT that will need to be added if this PR gets merged. Changed in 88c2046

More info on this here.

How to verify this change

When dependabot opens the next PR, if the on-pull-request checks are successful, this new workflow should run and merge the PR automatically.

Related issues, RFCs

#126

PR status

Is this ready for review?: YES
Is it a breaking change?: NO

Checklist

• My changes meet the tenets criteria
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code where necessary, particularly in areas that should be flagged with a TODO, or hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• My changes generate no new warnings
• The code coverage hasn't decreased
• I have added tests that prove my change is effective and works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally and in Github Actions
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream module
• The PR title follows the conventional commit semantics

Breaking change checklist

• I have documented the migration process
• I have added, implemented necessary warnings (if it can live side by side)

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