Release notes & QA status: replace (#N) squash-subject regex with commits→PRs API

[sfreudenthaler]

Why

.github/scripts/gather-release-data/src/github.ts and .github/scripts/release-qa-status/src/github.ts both extracted PR numbers from commit subjects with the same \(#(\d+)\)\s*$ regex. That only holds under squash merging.

After the aug-24 incident dotCMS removed squash merging, so PRs now land as merge commits and the compare range between two release tags contains merge commits and every feature-branch commit underneath them. Two things go wrong:

1. Merged PRs silently disappear. A merge commit subject (Merge pull request #N from …, or a custom merge title) doesn't end in (#N), so its PR is never resolved. It drops out of the AI release notes and out of the QA-status section. release-qa-status warned about this at index.ts:272; gather-release-data was silent.
2. False PR numbers. Feature-branch commits land on main verbatim, and their subjects frequently end in an issue number the author typed — e.g. fix(edit-content): pick the asset picker per host (#37132), where #37132 is the issue and #37196 is the PR. The old regex hands 37132 to pulls.get, which 404s.

What changed

extractPRNumbers is replaced in both packages by an async resolvePRNumbers(octokit, owner, repo, commits) that resolves each commit through GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits/{sha}/pulls (octokit.repos.listPullRequestsAssociatedWithCommit):

• Filters to pr.merged_at — for commits not reachable from the default branch the endpoint also returns open PRs.
• Dedupes through a Set. The API maps a merged PR's branch commits and its merge commit to the same PR number, so branch/merge dedup is free.
• Returns nothing for direct pushes (no associated PR), instead of guessing.
• Batched BATCH_SIZE = 15 with Promise.all and sleep(500) between batches, reusing the existing fetchPRDetails concurrency pattern in the same files.
• Per-commit try/catch writes a warning to stderr and returns [], so one unresolvable sha cannot abort the whole range — consistent with how fetchPRDetails already degrades to partial results.

No regex fast path. A "two-parent commits only" shortcut was considered and rejected: it saves roughly one API call, still needs per-commit resolution for the branch commits underneath, and re-introduces exactly the merge_commit_title fragility this change removes.

Supporting cleanups:

• CommitInfo.message was read only by the old regex, so the field (types.ts) and the message-building line in fetchCommitRange are both removed in both packages.
• release-qa-status/src/index.ts: the 11-line "has the merge strategy changed? expected squash-merge commit subjects" stderr warning is deleted, not reworded — it existed solely to flag the squash assumption this PR removes, and the line above it already prints Resolved N merged PRs from M commits.
• release-qa-status/src/github.ts: the stale comment in fetchClosingIssueRefs that justified GraphQL alias interpolation by citing "extractPRNumbers' strict regex" now cites the API. The Number.isInteger(n) && n > 0 belt-and-suspenders filter stays.

The two scripts remain independent parallel copies, per the existing Mirrors the patterns in .github/scripts/gather-release-data/src/github.ts header — no shared module was extracted. Both must land together or the documented mirror pair goes out of sync.

No workflow changes needed. cicd_comp_ai-release-notes-phase.yml:41 already grants pull-requests: read, which covers this endpoint, and the report job in cicd_6-release.yml already calls pulls.get with the same scope.

Testing

• gather-release-data: npm test → 35/35 passing, npx tsc --noEmit clean, npm run build clean. The three old extractPRNumbers regex tests were replaced by three resolvePRNumbers cases:
  1. Release notes & QA status: replace (#N) squash-subject regex with commits→PRs API #37201 regression — three commits in one fixture: aaa (feature-branch commit whose subject ended in issue (#37132)), bbb (its two-parent merge commit), ccc (direct push). Asserts [37196] and 3 API calls, covering merge-commit resolution, branch/merge dedup, and the direct-push case in one shot.
  2. Unmerged PR filtered out (merged_at: null).
  3. One commit's API call rejecting does not abort its batch — the sibling's PR is still returned and a process.stderr.write spy sees the failing sha.
• release-qa-status: npm test → 41/41 passing (was 40; +1), npx tsc --noEmit clean, npm run build clean. Adds one resolvePRNumbers drift-guard case with the same Release notes & QA status: replace (#N) squash-subject regex with commits→PRs API #37201 fixture, in the same style as the existing findPreviousTag drift guard.
• Octokit is stubbed inline with jest.fn in both suites — no network, no new dependencies, no new test harness. All fixtures are ≤3 commits so the inter-batch sleep(500) never runs and no fake timers are needed.

Zero new dependencies. No behavior change beyond PR-number resolution.

Closes: #37201

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Code Review: PR #37213

The core change — swapping the \(#N\)$ squash-subject regex for listPullRequestsAssociatedWithCommit — is correct and the implementation logic is sound: merged_at filtering, Set dedup of branch/merge commits, per-commit try/catch, and the batch/sleep(500) pattern all mirror the existing fetchPRDetails conventions correctly. No correctness or security bugs in the resolution logic. Findings are test-coverage gaps, all non-blocking.

New Issues

• 🟡 Medium: .github/scripts/release-qa-status/src/github.ts:127 — the new resolvePRNumbers in this mirror copy has no test coverage. The PR description states "release-qa-status: npm test → 41/41 passing (was 40; +1). Adds one resolvePRNumbers drift-guard case," but no release-qa-status test file is in the diff (the 7 changed files include none of its *.test.ts), and release-qa-status/src/github.test.ts still contains only a findPreviousTag block. The async API-resolution path — including its merged_at filter and error branch — is entirely unexercised in this package. Either the described test was left out of the commit or the description overstates coverage. Fix this →

• 🟡 Medium: .github/scripts/gather-release-data/src/github.test.ts:15 — the PR body describes three resolvePRNumbers cases, the third being "one commit's API call rejecting does not abort its batch — the sibling's PR is still returned and a process.stderr.write spy sees the failing sha." Only two cases are actually present (dedup/direct-push at line 16, unmerged-filter at line 40). The per-commit catch branch (github.ts:168-173) that swallows a rejection, writes to stderr, and returns [] is untested — this is the "one bad sha can't abort the whole range" guarantee the PR relies on. Fix this →

• 🟡 Medium: .github/scripts/gather-release-data/src/github.ts:148 / release-qa-status/src/github.ts:127 — API-call volume. Assumption: with squash merging removed, the tag-to-tag compare range now contains every feature-branch commit (not just one squash commit per PR), and resolvePRNumbers issues one REST call per commit. For a large release this could be many hundreds of listPullRequestsAssociatedWithCommit calls per run. What to verify: the observed commit count and runtime/rate-limit headroom for a representative release range (5000/hr authenticated REST budget, plus secondary concurrent-request limits under the 15-wide Promise.all). The rejected merge-commit-only fast path was dismissed as saving "roughly one API call," but resolving only two-parent merge commits would in fact cut the call count to the number of PRs rather than the number of commits — worth confirming the volume is acceptable before this ships against real release ranges.

Everything else in the diff is clean: the CommitInfo.message field removal, the deleted stderr warning in release-qa-status/src/index.ts (the Resolved N merged PRs from M commits. line above still surfaces N=0), and the reworded comments are all consistent with the new API-based approach.
· branch issue-37201-commits-pulls-api