Backporting multiple PRs at once?

Is there a way to backport multiple PRs via bot without needing an individual PR for each of them? Using bot backports makes changes get merged faster and with less effort for committers, so I try to use them when possible, but that causes issues when one or more PRs which weren’t backported exist in-between.

For example, I’m trying to update Hoppscotch on 25.11 to fix #494762. It’s already fixed on master, but several version bumps occurred before that patch that weren’t backported. In a previous case of this, I found that tagging the latest PR would fail to automatically be cherry-picked and require it to be done manually. If I tagged each PR sequentially, that would just make more work. Manually backporting creates a situation where committers need to review and maintainers can’t automerge.

What’s the best thing to do here? Just bite the bullet of the extra review time/effort?

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You’ve listed out all the possibilities, yeah. I either just backport sequentially, or manually backport. If a committer is also a maintainer then the latter is a non-issue usually.

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