Fix CLA workflow to skip bots and check all committers#3013
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Replace the single PR-author org membership check with a unified step that iterates all committers on the PR and checks each against: 1. GitHub API account type (type == "Bot" for App accounts) 2. Org membership Commits with no associated GitHub login are treated as non-exempt (prevents bypass via spoofed email with no GitHub account). Tested on aconite33/cla-workflow-test: - Human committer: correctly required CLA - github-actions[bot]: correctly skipped via API type check
Tested on aconite33/cla-workflow-test with only pull-requests:write and statuses:write -- both human CLA and bot skip paths work correctly. The CLA assistant uses PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN (app token) for writing signatures to the remote CLA repo, not GITHUB_TOKEN.
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Summary
Fixes CLA check failures on bot PRs (e.g. #3009).
Replaces the old single-author org membership check with a unified step that iterates all committers on the PR and checks each against:
gh api users/$LOGIN --jq .typereturns"Bot"for GitHub App accounts (enforced server-side, not spoofable)Also hardens against null logins: commits with no associated GitHub account are treated as non-exempt (prevents bypass via spoofed email).
github-actions[bot])Path to production
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