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Reduce toil in reviewing Go toolchain bump pull requests #11471

Description

@andyfeller

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

I would like the pull requests created by the Bump Go workflow to:

  1. automatically trigger CI without needing to push an empty commit
  2. more information about the Go toolchain release being upgraded

This would allow me as a CLI maintainer to stream line reviewing and approving changes.

Proposed solution

The following proposals are based on the most recent bump in #11467:

  1. Use a PAT within the bump-go.yml workflow to trigger CI

  2. Enhance the pull request body similar to Dependabot experience to contain:

    1. Link to the Go toolchain section within the Go release notes
    2. List of golang/go issues included in the release

Additional context

From #11372:

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It would be nice if the pull request listed the issues, but it isn't the end of the world for maintainers to click a link and dig into the results.

Activity

  1. github-actions commented on Aug 7, 2025

    @github-actions
    Contributor

    Thank you for your issue! We have categorized it as a feature request, and it has been added to our backlog. In doing so, we are not committing to implementing this feature at this time, but, we will consider it for future releases based on community feedback and our own product roadmap.

    Unless you see the help wanted Contributions welcome label, we are not currently looking for external contributions for this feature.

    If you come across this issue and would like to see it implemented, please add a thumbs up! This will help us prioritize the feature. Please only comment if you have additional information or viewpoints to contribute.

  2. yeikel commented on Sep 11, 2025

    @yeikel
    Contributor

    Maybe Dependabot itself should support that. Mind to start a feature request in dependabot-core?

    I may be able to pick it up there

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