Ovverride the PR merge rule

[PSinha1202]

Hi Team,

Need some help or guidance in case my ask is possible.

We have a CODEOWNER file which has fileName and codeOwner Team name mapping. So when a PR gets created it pull all codeOwner teams based on files changed and the mapping. But based on default rule (correct me i am wrong) PR is not allowed to merge unless all reviewers "Approve" PR, which makes total sense.

But say sometime, changes are so small, that we might not need all approvals. So i was wondering if there is a way to enable merge Button in PR the moment we know two of codeowner has already approved it. We already have the rule setup Require approvals -- min to 1, but i think after CODEOWNER approvals is overriding it, since now it needs approval from all codeowner.

I tried few things:

ex: writing a script under .github/workflow/xyz.yml
Which basically fetches the

1. CodeOwner list
2. Reviewers state === 'APPROVED'
3. Run the logic to check if we have met our two approvals from reviewers.

Question:
I am wondering if there is any API by which we can enable the PR to be merged? (enable merge Button )
If No API, then what other options we have to follow along to relax the rules of PR merge.

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated.

Regards
Prasenjit

[joshmgross]

I do not think there are any APIs to bypass Codeowner approval like this.

[PSinha1202]

thanks @joshmgross for the input. Can you suggest or know if there are some other alternate options to the above scenario?