How to ignore a user's approval in one team when the user is member of two approval teams?

[gpadavala]

How to ignore a user's approval in one team when the user is member of two approval teams?

[bluekeyes]

Unfortunately, it's not possible to ignore approvals from specific members of a team, but here are two potential workarounds:

1. Remove the bot account from both teams and add a users list with the bot's name to the rules where you'd like the bot to approve (you can mix users and teams conditions on the same rule.) This may not be possible if the teams are important for other purposes or you are unable to create a new team for the bot account.

2. Update the bot to leave a special comment when it approves a PR and then modify the rules where you'd like the bot to approve so that the special comment counts as approval. For example:

   - name: code_review
     requires:
       count: 1
       teams:
         - DEV_TEAM
   
   - name: ops_review
     options:
       methods:
         github_review: true
         comments:
           - ":+1:"
           - "👍"
           - "==OPS_BOT_APPROVED=="
     requires:
       count: 1
       teams:
         - OPS_TEAM

   When the bot leaves comment that contains ==OPS_BOT_APPROVED==, it will only count as an approval for the ops_review rule. Other users can continue to use the default comment strings or GitHub reviews.

   If you'd like the bot to use GitHub Reviews instead of comments, you can use the github_review_comment_patterns option to achieve a similar result.

[gpadavala]

First workaround is not suitable for us, but the 2nd one can be implemented.
Will have to think on how to handle for ops users that part of both teams (This is bcoz of how our Teams are implemented, admins are part of all teams). if you have any suggestions for that let me know.