First-contribution autolabeler: work around a bug (#46603)

The job was skipping first-time contributors because GitHub was
returning None as their association.

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Lena authored and GitHub committed 2026-01-12 10:08:16 +00:00
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@@ -37,12 +37,14 @@ jobs:
}
// Check if this is a first-time contributor.
// These two values are mutually exclusive, so we need to check both:
// - FIRST_TIME_CONTRIBUTOR: has contributed to other repos, but not this one
// - FIRST_TIMER: has never contributed to any public repository on GitHub
// We use inverted logic here due to a suspected GitHub bug where first-time contributors
// get 'NONE' instead of 'FIRST_TIME_CONTRIBUTOR' or 'FIRST_TIMER'.
// https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/78038
// This will break if GitHub ever adds new associations.
const association = pr.author_association;
const knownAssociations = ['CONTRIBUTOR', 'COLLABORATOR', 'MEMBER', 'OWNER', 'MANNEQUIN'];
if (association !== 'FIRST_TIME_CONTRIBUTOR' && association !== 'FIRST_TIMER') {
if (knownAssociations.includes(association)) {
console.log(`Author ${author} has association '${association}', not a first-time contributor`);
return;
}