Using _extends with .github repos

[larseggert]

I was hoping that it would be possible to use a .github/in-solidarity.yml file inside an organization-wide .github repository, to have bot settings consistently applied across an org. That org-wide config file would contain _extends: ietf/terminology, to pick up the configuration from https://github.com/ietf/terminology/blob/main/.github/in-solidarity.yml.

That seems to fail, however, with an error that I don't know what to do about:

configuration is invalid: [
{
"instancePath": "",
"schemaPath": "#/additionalProperties",
"keyword": "additionalProperties",
"params": {
"additionalProperty": "_extends"
},
"message": "must NOT have additional properties"
}
]

Is this supposed to work? Am I doing this wrong somehow?

[jpoehnelt]

I'm thinking this is a probot issue that doesn't get the extends from an org config? Seems like probot/probot#1294 was never fully resolved for v10+ of probot.

[jpoehnelt]

Closing this as it is a bug in probot, now at probot/probot#1660.

[Uzlopak]

Probot is shallow copying the configuration files. I opened a PR for deepmerging.

probot/octokit-plugin-config#263