Sami's winget-pkgs submission bot has been firing one PR per release.
Three of them (#391151/391368/391388) were generated with a buggy path
format and accumulated PullRequest-Error / Needs-Author-Feedback labels
before Sami noticed. That pattern reads as spam to winget-pkgs moderators
and risks the maintainer goodwill we've built with stephengillie.
Two new safeguards:
1. Pre-flight check (distribute.yml, winget job):
- Before opening a PR, scan existing SamiAhmed7777 PRs on
microsoft/winget-pkgs for PullRequest-Error or
Needs-Author-Feedback labels
- If any are found, abort this submission with a clear error
- Also skip if a PR for this exact version is already open
2. New winget-watchdog.yml workflow (cron */30 * * * *):
- Every 30 min, scan open SamiAhmed7777 PRs
- For each one, inspect wingetbot comments for validation result
- If a PR has automatic-validation failure comments, post a
summary comment + close the PR automatically
- This prevents 'broken PR opened, forgotten for 24h' pattern
that creates the spam appearance
Both changes keep the existing tag-triggered release flow intact.
Krystie
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