MyZubster builds automated GitHub bounty lifecycle system across 17 repositories
MyZubster, a distributed open-source ecosystem, has developed and tested a real-time GitHub bounty lifecycle system to safely automate contributor reward workflows without conflating GitHub events with payment or settlement. The system defines an explicit multi-stage lifecycle — from PROPOSED through SETTLED — where GitHub automation only handles a limited middle portion, moving bounties from APPROVED to UNDER_REVIEW based on issue assignments, pull requests, and reviews. Webhooks were configured across 17 first-party repositories, with all incoming payloads validated via HMAC-SHA256 signatures to reject unauthorized requests. During deployment, a production bug was discovered where PM2 was running with a stale environment secret, causing every webhook delivery to return a 401 Unauthorized error until the process was restarted with the updated variable. An end-to-end test using a reward-free bounty successfully validated all three automated transitions — assignment, pull request linkage, and review submission — confirming the lifecycle system works as intended.
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