Allowing specific actors to bypass all branch protection rules

[musabmasood]

So this is a feature we're dying to have:

Why?

Because there is no way for our bots to commit directly to master (in automation, Gitops etc) other than making them an admin. We don't want to make them an admin because there are other humans who are also admins and we want to force all requirements on them.

As a work around, we are forced to automate:

• Pull request creation
• Approve it (or bypass approval)
• Bypass all checks
• Figure out merge-ability (rebasing, race-conditions, conflicts)
• Merge

Even that breaks at times as there is rate-limiting around PR submissions.

Its a major PITA for any automation around Git especially GitOps. Please provide a timeline for this feature as we are forced to re-consider our options otherwise 🙏