+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 >>>>> not click links or open attachments unless you can confirm the sender and >>>>> know the content is safe. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> +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 >>>> >>>
