Recreating the example from README throws the error: "Error importing ruleset: The ruleset you are importing contains an invalid actor"

[barremian]

Describe the bug

Importing the branch-rulesets/PRs and commits.json rulesets throws an error.

To Reproduce

1. Clone this repo.
2. Open a repo with admin rights.
3. Go to Settings -> Rules -> Rulesets.
4. Import the ruleset branch-rulesets/PRs and commits.json as shown in the video example from this repo.

Expected behavior

The ruleset gets imported as shown in the video without throwing any errors.

Actual behavior

The following error is thrown:

Error importing ruleset: The ruleset you are importing contains an invalid actor

Screenshots/Video

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Environment

• OS: macOS
• Browser: Chrome

Additional Context

Possible source of the error:

• My Github account is a personal account.
• According to the Github Docs (see "Properties of bypass_actors -> actor_id"), the "actor_type": "OrganizationAdmin" used in the PRs and commits.json#L44 file is not applicable for personal repositories.
• FWIW I was able to import the rule after deleting the bypass_actors property from the PRs and commits.json file.
• Manually adding the bypass actors and exporting the ruleset revealed the following bypass_actors block where the actor IDs 2, 4, 5 correspond to maintain, write, and admin respectively as discussed here.

  "bypass_actors": [
    {
      "actor_id": 2,
      "actor_type": "RepositoryRole",
      "bypass_mode": "always"
    },
    {
      "actor_id": 4,
      "actor_type": "RepositoryRole",
      "bypass_mode": "always"
    },
    {
      "actor_id": 5,
      "actor_type": "RepositoryRole",
      "bypass_mode": "always"
    }
  ]

[astridwalle]

same issue here.

[diablodale]

A github support agent wrote to me that the PRs and commits.json ruleset fails "...because the rule includes a bypass for organization admins which don't exist in the scope of an individual-owned repository and commit message rules which are only available to Enterprise plans".

Of course, removing bypass_actors and commit_message_pattern from the json leaves the ruleset DOA 😵

FYI, my error was slightly different