Dependabot will not merge PR while failed non-required checks exist

[nwhittaker]

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npm

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npm 8.19.2

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Node.js 18.12.1

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What you expected to see, versus what you actually saw

Our Dependabot PRs undergo a series of required and non-required CI checks. Once all required checks are passed, I expect to be able to add a comment to the PR with the @dependabot merge or @dependabot squash and merge command and have Dependabot merge the PR.

However, even though I can merge the PR manually, if any of the non-required checks have failed or been canceled, Dependabot does not merge and instead adds a message to the PR's description:

Dependabot will merge this PR once CI passes on it, as requested by …

In some cases, it may be perfectly reasonable for an optional check to fail or be canceled (or still pending, even). If the PR can be merged manually due to all required checks passing, the expectation is that Dependabot can also merge it.

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[nwhittaker]

Somewhat related to #2661 but there appears to be some confusion on that PR is to whether it's scoped to Dependabot's old auto-merge behavior.

[DavidBoike]

This is a problem for us as well. Trying to take an untested workflow and distribute it to multiple repositories. We just want to get feedback on whether it works in all environments or not, and that's breaking our ability to have Dependabot merge development dependency updates.