Possible to use autolabeler without creating a draft release on unmerged PR?

[ahatzz11]

Currently when a PR is opened it autolabels, but it also adds that unmerged PR to the release draft. I would like to autolabel my PRs, but I only want merged PRs to be added to my draft. Is this possible?

[harrylewis]

Hey @ahatzz11 👋

I was also just experiencing this issue as well today, and came across #917. It explains about an undocumented workflow configuration, disable-releaser, which can be used.

This PR, sbgisen/.github#26, contains a good example of how this could be used for your scenario.

[ahatzz11]

@harrylewis thanks for the info! This completely stopped release-drafter from running, which means that the autolabeler also didn't run.

Am I able to have the auto-labeler part run without generating a release? Also I think using disable-releaser is kind of a roundabout way of fixing that when you could just turn off the pull_request events if it just 100% disables it.

It turns out the quick test I did I forgot to put something in the title that matched my autolabeler, so it did run but didn't find anything 🤦

For anyone maybe running into this, the above code worked great!

with:
  # allows autolabeler to run without unmerged PRs from being added to draft
  disable-releaser: ${{ github.ref_name != github.event.repository.default_branch }}