The eligibility job enabled the relinker matrix for a pull request only
when repos.listCommits on main with the author's login returned a
commit. That filter misses authors whose commits in main are not
matched to their login. On 2026-10-13 it found no commit for 26 authors
of open pull requests who have 1 to 44 pull requests merged into main,
so their pull requests skip the relinker, against CONTRIBUTING.md ("if
its author already has a commit in main").
When listCommits finds nothing, the job now also searches for the
author's merged pull requests into main, with the query pr-intake.yml
uses. Incomplete search results count as none. A failed search, such as
the search API's own rate limit, skips the relinker with a warning
instead of failing the job. Both requests now run only when the pull
request changes a relinker file, so other pull requests make neither.
test_build_eligibility.py runs the step's script in node with a mocked
github object and skips when node is missing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
MarcZX100