Any way to notify PR Author when required status check fails?

[bikram-agarwal]

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In our GitHub org/repo, the PRs "require status checks to pass before merging". Status check like Gearset CI job, codescan run etc.

We are planning to enable "Allow Auto-Merge" feature. We are advertising this feature to our team as - "You can create the PR, click 'Enable Auto-Merge' button and leave. You don't have to babysit it." This works fine if all required status checks pass. But if any of them fail, that's a problem. Developers won't know their PR is stuck until hours later when they manually come back to check.

So my question is - Is there any way to notify the PR author when any required status checks fail? Right now, the author gets an email in these events -

• when reviewer approves the PR,
• when anyone leaves a comment on the PR,
• when the PR gets closed,
• when the PR gets merged.

Is there a configuration available anywhere so that they will get email (or slack msg) if their PR's required status check fails?

Also, is there any GitHub webhook event for the same that can trigger a workflow? I checked the "Status" activity documentation, but doesn't look like that's for PR's status check. Any ideas?

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