+1.
Still good to understand the limitations. Having a first line of review, or
just using co-pilot to classify or tag a PR is also a good use of the free
credits.


*Scott Haines*
Engineer
408.768.3799


On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM Gang Wu <[email protected]> wrote:

> From GitHub's billing docs, Copilot code review consumes both AI credits
> and GitHub Actions minutes (which are free for public repos.)
>
> The AI credit quota depends on ASF's GitHub/Copilot billing setup, which
> does not seem to be publicly documented.
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Good to see this is now enabled by ASF! I wanted to give this a try
>> before but it wasn't available yet in the Apache org. I think it's very
>> helpful as a first review for PRs.
>>
>> One thing though:
>> > before enabling such features, projects should discuss the
>> workflow/resource impact with the project team
>>
>> What's our quota for Copilot Reviews? Will it eat into our CI resources?
>> What happens if we use it up?
>> Would be good to know these before enabling it. I could find anything
>> from the ASF docs above
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 7:52 PM vaquar khan <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>> Good one 👍
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Viquar Khan
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 8:33 PM Junwang Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1, this can help catch bugs or inconsistencies early in the PR process.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 11:20 PM Jones, Danny <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1 on trialling something like GH Copilot for review. I was thinking
>>>>> about proposing this for iceberg-rust – for the same reasons others raised
>>>>> on reviewer bandwidth. I look forward to hearing how it goes for
>>>>> iceberg-cpp, and wonder if anyone on the Arrow project can share how it’s
>>>>> been for them so far.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> One thing raised by Andrew Lamb on one of the Arrow tuning PRs[1] is
>>>>> to define how contributors should respond to the feedback from Copilot. I
>>>>> think this would be useful for us too – in particular, I’d encourage
>>>>> contributors and reviewers alike to be vocal on the comments in PRs such
>>>>> that this can be fed back in for tuning the custom guidance – positive and
>>>>> negative! Treat it a bit like providing feedback for a retrospective.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Danny
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/50117
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *From: *Renjie Liu <[email protected]>
>>>>> *Reply to: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>> *Date: *Thursday, 16 July 2026 at 07:04
>>>>> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>> *Subject: *RE: [EXTERNAL] [DISCUSS] Enable GitHub Copilot code review
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *CAUTION*: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> +1 for this. Reviewer bandwidth is limited and if it works well for
>>>>> iceberg-cpp, I'm looking forward to introduce it to other repos.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM Gang Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to discuss enabling ASF-managed GitHub Copilot code
>>>>> review for
>>>>> Iceberg repositories, starting with iceberg-cpp as a small trial:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/apache/iceberg-cpp/pull/833
>>>>>
>>>>> This would enable automatic Copilot review on non-draft PRs, using the
>>>>> ASF
>>>>> `.asf.yaml` `github.copilot_code_review` setting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Apache Arrow recently enabled and tuned this feature:
>>>>> https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/50117
>>>>>
>>>>> ASF Infra documents this as a supported `.asf.yaml` feature:
>>>>> https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-asfyaml#copilot-code-review
>>>>>
>>>>> The `.asf.yaml` docs also say that before enabling such features,
>>>>> projects
>>>>> should discuss the workflow/resource impact with the project team:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-asfyaml#before-you-start-using-asfyaml
>>>>>
>>>>> I suggest starting with iceberg-cpp first as a trial, because reviewer
>>>>> bandwidth
>>>>> is limited there and Copilot may provide useful first-pass feedback.
>>>>> If it works
>>>>> well, other Iceberg repositories can adopt a similar setup later.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any concerns or objections?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Gang
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards
>>>> Junwang Zhao
>>>>
>>>

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