docs: suggest to let Renovate bypass mandatory Pull Request reviews

[Shegox]

Changes

This PR recommends that users should add Renovate to the list of users, which are allowed to bypass mandatory Pull Request instead of installing the auto-approve App.
This has the advantage that no additional App is required. In the long term, renovate-approve could be deprecated in favor of this approach overall.

Context

GitHub added this new feature in November 2021 and I couldn't find it yet in the Renovate docs.

Fixes #15659

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Merging without approval: tobias-something-something/automerge-test#3

although required PRs are configured

[HonkingGoose]

GitHub added this new feature in November 2021 and I couldn't find it yet in the Renovate docs.

You're totally right! 😉 I created an issue to figure out how to describe the branch protection exception for Renovate in our docs:

• Renovate bot can be excepted from branch protection rules on GitHub #15659

The problem is that we should probably change more than just add a single line somewhere in the docs. And also, if we tell our users to add Renovate bot as an exception, it should work for automerge=pr and automerge=branch.

[Shegox]

GitHub added this new feature in November 2021 and I couldn't find it yet in the Renovate docs.

You're totally right! 😉 I created an issue to figure out how to describe the branch protection exception for Renovate in our docs:

• Renovate bot can be excepted from branch protection rules on GitHub #15659

The problem is that we should probably change more than just add a single line somewhere in the docs. And also, if we tell our users to add Renovate bot as an exception, it should work for automerge=pr and automerge=branch.

I searched if there was an issue already open for this, but missed that one. 😅

In my test, a PR merge worked. Let me further explore this next week and better document it.

[Shegox]

And testing using autoMergeType: branch via tobias-something-something/automerge-test@b5df255, works as well as expected.

So overall it seems to work for all my tested cases: branch and PR and even works, if "Require review from Code Owners" is enabled:

[HonkingGoose]

Small style change.

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🎉 This PR is included in version 32.103.0 🎉

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• 32.103.0

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