A more principal fix would be to ignore subtree syncs, probably by adding a config on [no-mentions] (à la exclude-titles = ["subtree update"]).

Would you be willing to implement this instead? I can provide guidance. If not, that's okay, we can merge this PR in the meantime.

Yes I'd be willing to implement such a change, triagebot is a project I like working on.

Although I'm not sure how many titles that aren't subtree syncs (and thus, contain merge commits mentioning rustbot) would benefit from disabling the no-mentions check.

I proposed title based exclusion because that's what we currently do for the [no-merges] handler (example in r-l/r) and I think we are kind-of forced to do it for subtrees.

I don't think only excluding rustbot would work for subtrees, as merge commits often contain the complete description which can contain arbitrary mentions, which I don't think you would want them to be warn either.

As for other PRs that aren't subtree sync, we may still want to exclude rustbot (and maybe bors as well), although the usefulness of not linting for those PRs is less clear to me.

Done! I've reoriented the pull request and added support for a new exclude_titles = ["..."] config opt.

@blyxyas Forgot to ask, would you be up sending a PR updating the documentation of [no-mentions] in the forge? https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/blob/master/src/triagebot/no-mentions.md

Yeah, of course! I'll open it ASAP