If for some reason a status check fails but we still want to merge (maybe some dependency is temporarily failing to download because a server is down), as admins we can still click to bypass the rules and merge.

Updated ruleset for this:

Also requires "Allow auto-merge" at https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/settings. I also checked "Automatically delete head branches" to keep things tidy:

#9097 and #8926 are showing an interesting side effect of these changes in settings - when we skip workflows, because we're only building docs or only building wheels, the 'Successful' checks are now just showing as 'pending'.

It doesn't cause any problems, but it makes you think something might be wrong.

Hmm, it actually does cause a problem, because it blocks merge (although you can use admin permissions to bypass it):

Let's hold off on this for now, and I've disabled the ruleset ("Enforcement status: Disabled") at https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/settings/rules/7135275.

OK, a rebase and a couple more commits:

• 4d8e718 fixes an existing issue: GitHub treats a skipped check as a pass. So make sure the check always runs, and ensure the build result really was a pass (rather than a no-op echo).

• 2d72447 adds a no-op workflow with paths that mirror the paths-ignore from the other test workflows. When the normal ones are skipped for a docs build, the no-op one runs and so the expected workflow success jobs are still present.

Next steps:

• Merge
• Enable ruleset: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/settings/rules/7135275
• Check it works
• Uninstall the Mergify app
• Delete the automerge label

(Can't add automerge for one last time on this PR, because it modifies workflow files :)

Next steps:

• Merge
• Enable ruleset: python-pillow/Pillow/settings/rules/7135275
• Check it works
• Uninstall the Mergify app
• Delete the automerge label

Worked with both a docs PR (#9879) and a non-docs PR (#9878) 🎉

Good timing, rather than deleting the old automerge label, we can now archive it without losing the history on old PRs:

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-27-label-archiving-is-generally-available/

So automerge is now archived:

• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/labels?archived=true
• https://github.com/python-pillow/docker-images/labels?archived=true

And I've uninstalled the Mergify app from:

https://github.com/organizations/python-pillow/settings/installations

Whilst looking at https://github.com/organizations/python-pillow/settings/installations, I've also uninstalled the Azure Pipelines and Travis CI apps, we no longer use those either.