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Heads up: changed required approval settings for actions in the org

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#623 3 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, github-actions
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Start with the GitHub organization Actions settings link in the issue and read the recorded previous and new approval values. There is no requested code or documentation change; the issue is done only as an administrative record of the setting change.

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Description

@nodejs/tsc @nodejs/community-committee @nodejs/moderation

I changed the global setting at https://github.com/organizations/nodejs/settings/actions
Previous value (GitHub default): "Require approval for first-time contributors"
New value: "Require approval for first-time contributors who are new to GitHub"

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
202
Forks
183
Avg merge
13d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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