GitHub auto-close does not work

Summary

We want GitHub to automatically close issues if they are referenced from commit messages as documented here.

In most cases this does not work in the https://github.com/eclipse-apoapsis/ort-server repository and it is totally unclear to me why. I could not find any documentation that this feature could be disabled, and I could not find any reports of other GitHub users having this issue.

In other projects I contribute to, like https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort, we never had any problems with auto-closing issues from commit messages.

Could this be caused by some configuration you enforce on GitHub organizations? If not, could you reach out to GitHub support for help?

We collect some of the affected issues here: https://github.com/eclipse-apoapsis/ort-server/issues/868

Priority

• Urgent
• High
• Medium
• Low

Severity

• Blocker
• Major
• Normal
• Low