Mentor verification flow - L2+ can approve PRs from inside the app

[Ayush-Patel-56]

Problem

Right now mentor verification happens as a side effect of a GitHub review, detected by the webhook. There's no in-app flow for a mentor to explicitly verify a PR without going to GitHub.

What to build

On the maintainer PR queue and on the contributor's 'My Work' section, L2+ users should see a 'Verify' button on PRs that are linked and unverified. Clicking it:

1. Calls a server action that sets mentor_verified = true and mentor_reviewer_id = user.id on the PR
2. Awards XP to the mentor (same as a GitHub review would)
3. Creates an xp_events entry for audit trail
4. Shows feedback to the mentor confirming the action

Access control

• Only users with level >= 2 can call the verify action
• A mentor can't verify their own PR
• Can't verify an already-verified PR

Where

• New server action in src/app/actions/maintainer.ts or a new src/app/actions/mentor.ts
• UI in src/app/(app)/issues/my-work-section.tsx and src/app/(maintainer)/maintainer/pr-queue/page.tsx

Notes

• This is a meaningful feature - keep the XP award logic consistent with what the webhook does
• Check src/inngest/functions/process-review-event.ts to see the current flow

[saurabhhhcodes]

Hi maintainers, I would like to work on this under GSSoC/NSoC if it is still available.

I checked the existing webhook mentor-verification flow and can keep the implementation aligned with it by adding a guarded server action for L2+ manual verification, preventing self-verification and duplicate verification, reusing the existing mentor comment flow, and wiring a small UI action into the maintainer queue / contributor work surfaces without changing unrelated review logic.

[Ayush4958]

Hi @Ayush-Patel-56 ,

I would like to work on this issue , Is it still open to work ??

[Soumya-codr]

@saurabhhhcodes sorry to say but since u have pulled request without getting assigned earlier in #161 so as a compensation i am assigning this to @Ayush4958

Thanks Happy Coding

[Ayush4958]

thanks @Soumya-codr ,
I will be working on the issue