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[backports] allow maintain role in backport workflow permission checks - #21017
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Extend the actor permission gate in auto-backport and sync-backport-changelog workflows to accept `maintain` in addition to `write` and `admin`. Users with the maintain role have push access and should be able to trigger backports. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The changes are small, consistent across both workflows, and correctly broaden the permission check to include maintain without altering workflow behavior otherwise.
Pull request overview
This PR updates the repository’s backport automation permission gate to allow collaborators with GitHub’s maintain role (in addition to write and admin) to trigger the auto-backport and sync-backport-changelog workflows.
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- Expanded the actor permission check to accept
maintainin both workflows. - Updated the skip log message to reflect the expanded accepted permission set.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| .github/workflows/auto-backport.yml | Adds maintain to the allowed permission levels for the actor gate in the backport automation workflow. |
| .github/workflows/sync-backport-changelog.yml | Adds maintain to the allowed permission levels for the actor gate in the changelog sync backport workflow. |
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…ssion (elastic#21017) - Replace second `mage applyBackport` with `backport apply` in the package owner synchronization section (missed in previous commit). - Update /sync-changelog permission from "write access" to "write or maintain access" to match PR elastic#21017 (merged 2026-09-03). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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maintainpermission level includes push access in GitHub's permission modelauto-backport.yml,sync-backport-changelog.yml) updated consistentlyRelated issues