kodiak cannot update PRs made between self-owned organizations

[chdsbd]

Given a user "bob" with repository "bob/cake-api" who is a member of "acme-corp", if "bob" forks "bob/cake-api" to "acme-corp/cake-api", makes a commit to "acme-corp/cake-api" and opens a PR against "bob/cake-api" with his new changes, "bob" will not have the option to select "Allow edits from maintainers". This means Kodiak will not be able to update the PR and "bob" will not be able to allow Kodiak to do so because the "Allow edits from maintainers" checkbox is missing.

I've confirmed via the GitHub API that maintainer_can_modify is false for PRs opened using the flow described above and that the "Allow edits from maintainers" checkbox is also hidden in PRs opened using this flow.

related #104 (comment)

more examples

acme-corp/cake-api (main repository)
    -> bob/cake-api (fork)

Bob pushes a branch, add-endpoint, to bob/cake-api. He opens a PR against acme-corp/cake-api. The "Allow edits from maintainers" checkbox is hidden when opening the PR (this is the GitHub bug). Kodiak cannot update Bob's branch in bob/cake-api and Kodiak errors.

[chdsbd]

The workaround is to push your branch to the main repository and make the pull request using the branch in the main repository instead of the fork.

This error appears in Kodiak's GitHub status checks as:

API call 'pull_request/merge' failed with HTTP status '403' and response: 'b'{"message":"Resource not accessible by integration","documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/pulls#merge-a-pull-request"}\''

[chdsbd]

It seems like this original issue was fixed at some point in time. There's a second, different issue around GitHub Repository Secrets that I thought was related. Here's a new ticket for that issue: #641

I'm closing this ticket as it's no longer valid.