Count PR author as approving code in code owner check

If someone from team A changes code owned only by team A, the team has
already approved the code from a code owner perspective. Someone else
must still review the code, as always, but the code does not need code
owner approval.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/code-owner-approval.yml b/.github/workflows/code-owner-approval.yml
index a66b074210..256f626d3f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/code-owner-approval.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/code-owner-approval.yml
@@ -137,7 +137,16 @@ jobs:
               // Set of teams that have approved this PR
               const approvedTeams = new Set();
 
+              // Get array of github usernames that have approved the PR
               const approvers = await getApprovers();
+
+              // PR author automatically counts as an approver. A code owner changing
+              // their own code does not need extra code owner approval. They still
+              // need the code reviewed, but that's not part of code ownership approval.
+              const prAuthor = context.payload.pull_request.user.login;
+              if (!approvers.includes(prAuthor)) {
+                approvers.push(prAuthor);
+              }
               console.log(`👍 PR approved by the following accounts: ${approvers.join(', ')}`);
 
               for (const approver of approvers) {