Allow check to run without needing the enforce branch protection rules about label-requires-reviews-action

[namelivia]

Nice, sounds reasonable to me, however, I don't think I'll have availability to work on this anytime soon. But I'll put it in my backlog for later, I hope you can understand.

If you want to try to do it yourself feel free, and I'll be happy to assist you.

[namelivia]

Hello! Just to verify I understood your request correctly, there are two issues here:

On one hand, you would like to timestamp the reviews and expire them if a new commit is applied on top?
And in the other hand, you would like to enforce Required approving reviews for other branches than master (i.e. epic branches).

Did I understand it correctly?

[tugboat-m]

sorry about describing two issues in one GH issue thread 😓

On one hand, you would like to timestamp the reviews and expire them if a new commit is applied on top?

Correct, essentially mimic the "Dismiss stale pull request approvals when new commits are pushed" without needing to check "Require pull request reviews before merging" to then check the "Dismiss stale.." rule.

And in the other hand, you would like to enforce Required approving reviews for other branches than master (i.e. epic branches).

Correct, I think. The idea is to not make the branch protection rule "Require pull request reviews before merging" a requirement. If this does not need to actually be done then that is great, the mimic of "Dismiss..." to ensure accurate approval status is the core issue being faced.