question: running in CI and CI timeout

Hello 👋

I started using marge-bot for automatic merge-queue handling and first trying the simple approach running it in GitLab CI as scheduled pipeline job (each 5 minutes).

First investigations:

• during the runs it takes some time to process the assigned MRs
• marge bot is blocking on each MR and waits for CI to finish
• depending on CI pipeline it can take minutes to hours to finish them

Questions:

• what is the best strategy to configure the MARGE_CI_TIMEOUT ?
  • we know it does not make sense to wait for the pipeline in "blocking mode"
  • should we set it to 0 or some minimum seconds timeout 5s?
• if the timeout is reached, can we prevent marge to re-assign to originator as we know next run will check the pipeline status again and just merge if already succeeded?

Thanks 😃