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+name: Approval
+
+# Logdash team members merge their own pull requests on green checks.
+# Pull requests from anyone else need a team member to approve their latest commit; outside collaborators cannot approve each other's.
+# GitHub judges a required check by its newest run, so every run reads the reviews as they stand and never skips.
+# ponytail: anyone with write access can edit this file on their branch, so it stops accidental merges, not deliberate ones.
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  pull_request_review:
+    types: [submitted, dismissed]
+
+permissions:
+  pull-requests: read
+
+jobs:
+  approval:
+    name: team approval
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          AUTHOR: ${{ github.event.pull_request.author_association }}
+          PR: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+          HEAD: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+        run: |
+          case "$AUTHOR" in OWNER|MEMBER) echo "Opened by a Logdash team member."; exit 0 ;; esac
+          # Private organization members can show up as CONTRIBUTOR or NONE here, so a team review is a user review with write access from anyone but an outside collaborator.
+          # shellcheck disable=SC2016 # $owner, $name and $pr are GraphQL variables, not shell ones.
+          verdict=$(gh api graphql -F pr="$PR" -f owner="${GITHUB_REPOSITORY%/*}" -f name="${GITHUB_REPOSITORY#*/}" -f query='
+            query($owner: String!, $name: String!, $pr: Int!) {
+              repository(owner: $owner, name: $name) {
+                pullRequest(number: $pr) {
+                  latestOpinionatedReviews(first: 100, writersOnly: true) {
+                    nodes { state authorAssociation author { __typename } commit { oid } }
+                  }
+                }
+              }
+            }' | jq -r --arg head "$HEAD" '
+            [.data.repository.pullRequest.latestOpinionatedReviews.nodes[] | select(.author.__typename == "User" and .authorAssociation != "COLLABORATOR")]
+            | if any(.state == "CHANGES_REQUESTED") then "A Logdash team member requested changes"
+              elif any(.state == "APPROVED" and .commit.oid == $head) then "approved"
+              else "No Logdash team member has approved the latest commit yet" end')
+          [ "$verdict" = approved ] && { echo "Approved by a Logdash team member."; exit 0; }
+          echo "::error::$verdict. Outside contributions merge once a Logdash team member approves their latest commit."
+          exit 1