Have a different AutoApprove User

[MeNsaaH]

Tell us more.

I'm currently working with Gitlab and have setup renovate for auto merge. However, the current challenge is the repository has an atleast 1 approval requirement. Any user who has contributed to the MR cannot make approvals. As such, using renovate AutoApprove doesn't work.

It would be good to have an autoApprove user configuration which will be a different set of credentials used just for autoapproving MRs.

[viceice]

out of scope for renovate

[MeNsaaH]

I'm not sure this is out of scope for Renovate. It's all about having a different set of credentials for autoapproving instead of reusing the same credentials/user that created the MR. Can you explain how this is out of scope for renovate?

[viceice]

because renovate isn't doing this on any platform. you should use a different bot. something like the auto approve bot for GitHub

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