From 89ad7dc63bb231a001d2bc71f02cab6ce7fa49c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 11:40:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tools: enforce removal of `lts-watch-*` labels on release
 proposals
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PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61672
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <richard.lau@ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <marcoippolito54@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rafael Gonzaga <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tierney Cyren <hello@bnb.im>
---
 .github/workflows/lint-release-proposal.yml | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint-release-proposal.yml b/.github/workflows/lint-release-proposal.yml
index ec7482d501b..51636bd583a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint-release-proposal.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint-release-proposal.yml
@@ -92,9 +92,15 @@ jobs:
             "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/compare/v${MAJOR}.x...$GITHUB_SHA" --paginate \
           | node tools/actions/lint-release-proposal-commit-list.mjs "$CHANGELOG_PATH" "$GITHUB_SHA" \
           | while IFS= read -r PR_URL; do
-            LABEL="dont-land-on-v${MAJOR}.x" gh pr view \
+            DONT_LAND_LABEL="dont-land-on-v${MAJOR}.x" LTS_WATCH_LABEL="lts-watch-v${MAJOR}.x" gh pr view \
               --json labels,url \
-              --jq 'if (.labels|map(.name==env.LABEL)|any) then error("\(.url) has the \(env.LABEL) label, forbidding it to be in this release proposal") end' \
+              --jq '
+                if (.labels|any(.name==env.DONT_LAND_LABEL)) then
+                  error("\(.url) has the \(env.DONT_LAND_LABEL) label, forbidding it to be in this release proposal")
+                elif (.labels|any(.name==env.LTS_WATCH_LABEL)) then
+                  error("\(.url) has the \(env.LTS_WATCH_LABEL) label, please remove the label now that the PR is included in a release proposal")
+                end
+                ' \
               "$PR_URL" > /dev/null
           done
         shell: bash  # See https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#exit-codes-and-error-action-preference, we want the pipefail option.