From 3e3437bab8e7892ad5f4fcb500e765eaa0c84477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9s=20Taylor?= <andres@planetscale.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 07:04:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tooling: don't add bots to authors list (#14411)

---
 go/tools/release-notes/release_notes.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/go/tools/release-notes/release_notes.go b/go/tools/release-notes/release_notes.go
index 5bb03339245..1673d6a5160 100644
--- a/go/tools/release-notes/release_notes.go
+++ b/go/tools/release-notes/release_notes.go
@@ -201,6 +201,10 @@ func loadMergedPRsAndAuthors(name string) (pris []pullRequestInformation, author
 	authorMap := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, pri := range pris {
 		login := pri.Author.Login
+		if strings.HasPrefix(login, "@app") {
+			// skip the bots
+			continue
+		}
 		if ok := authorMap[login]; !ok {
 			authors = append(authors, login)
 			authorMap[login] = true