ignorePrAuthor is not being honored when included in parent config

[joeyweisband]

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GitLab; Renovate v39.69.3

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We want to globally set the ignorePrAuthor setting to "true". We tried this by setting the value in our parent config with a preset:

{
"$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
"description": "Set ignorePrAuthor to allow queries to all MRs regardless of author",
"ignorePrAuthor": true
}

This did not produce the desired effect as Renovate was unable to find MRs from other owners.

We then tried setting the environment variable RENOVATE_IGNORE_PR_AUTHOR to true, and this worked.

We would prefer to set this value using config rather than an env. Why is this behavior occurring?

The following items are true:

• There are no default or custom presets that we know of that are overriding the ignorePrAuthor setting
• When the printConfig setting is turned on, the resolved global config is exactly the same when the preset is used vs. the ENV (no diff between the two)
• We noticed that the ignorePrAuthor setting is set to false on the resolved repository level config when the preset is used and true when the ENV is used.

Logs (if relevant)

Logs

See attached files for logs.

debugWithEnv.log
debugWithPreset.log

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[a1flecke]

I am very curious about this as well

[rarkins]

Please describe what the importance/difference is between the two log files which were uploaded

[joeyweisband]

Hi @rarkins,

The two log files are two separate renovate runs over the same repository with the LOG_LEVEL set to debug.

debugWithEnv.log - The debug logs generated when both the ignorePrAuthor (via the preset) and RENOVATE_IGNORE_PR_AUTHOR environment variable were set to true.

debugWithPreset.log - The debug logs generated when just the ignorePrAuthor (via the preset) was set to true and the environment variable was not set.

[rarkins]

Both logs include "ignorePrAuthor": true,. Where in the logs do you think there are indications of wrong behavior?

[joeyweisband]

@rarkins

Apologies, we saw the behavior in the TRACE logs, but the files were too big to include the full log. I've taken the snippits that I think contain the behavior and included them here:

traceOutputSampleWithEnv.log - The trace logs of running renovate with the ENV explicitly set showing ignorePrAuthor set to true in the repo config. (Line 396125)

traceOutputSampleWithOnlyPreset.log - The trace logs of running renovate with only the preset showing ignorePrAuthor set to false in the repo config. (Line 396098)