Explanation of openjdk-bot invites

[erik.joelsson at oracle.com]

If you are a member of any of the projects listed below, you may have 
received an invite today to join a repository in the 'openjdk-bots' 
organization on GitHub. If you aren't involved in resolving merge 
conflicts for automatic merges in any of these projects, you may ignore 
the invite and stop reading now.

  * amber
  * mobile
  * panama
  * skara (not actually using automatic merges, this project was used
    for testing the auto invite functionality)

These projects are all using a Skara service to automatically perform 
merges of upstream JDK changes into one or more branches in their 
project repositories. Sometimes the bot will encounter a conflict in 
such a merge, which will require manual intervention by someone in the 
project. To handle this, the bot creates a pull request with 
instructions on how to resolve the merge conflict (e.g. [1]). Similar to 
when using the /backport command, this pull request is created from a 
special fork of the parent project in the 'openjdk-bots' organization. 
When using the /backport command, the issuer of the command is 
dynamically granted write access in the relevant branch of that fork. 
However, in the case of merge conflict pull requests, any project member 
of role committer or higher should be able to help resolve the merge 
conflict. Until now we were handling permissions in these project forks 
manually, but today I deployed automation adding write access for all 
project members of role committer or higher, which is why there was a 
sudden influx of invites going out.

If you are interested in resolving merge conflicts for these automatic 
merges in the future, I recommend accepting the invites.

If you would like to enable automatic merging from upstream, or between 
branches, in any other project, feel free to contact us.

/Erik

[1] https://github.com/openjdk/mobile/pull/21
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