phacility/phabricator · warning · Exception

You can not resign from this commit because you are not an a

Error message

You can not resign from this commit because you are not an active auditor.

What it means

Resign requires the actor to hold an active auditor request on the commit (isViewerAnyActiveAuditor). If you were never added as an auditor, or already resigned, the action has nothing to resign from and validateAction() refuses it.

Source

Thrown at src/applications/diffusion/xaction/DiffusionCommitResignTransaction.php:46

  public function getActionName() {
    return pht('Resigned');
  }

  public function generateOldValue($object) {
    $actor = $this->getActor();
    return !$this->isViewerAnyActiveAuditor($object, $actor);
  }

  public function applyExternalEffects($object, $value) {
    $status = PhabricatorAuditRequestStatus::RESIGNED;
    $actor = $this->getActor();
    $this->applyAuditorEffect($object, $actor, $value, $status);
  }

  protected function validateAction($object, PhabricatorUser $viewer) {
    if (!$this->isViewerAnyActiveAuditor($object, $viewer)) {
      throw new Exception(
        pht(
          'You can not resign from this commit because you are not an '.
          'active auditor.'));
    }
  }

  public function getTitle() {
    return pht(
      '%s resigned from this commit.',
      $this->renderAuthor());
  }

  public function getTitleForFeed() {
    return pht(
      '%s resigned from %s.',
      $this->renderAuthor(),
      $this->renderObject());
  }

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Solutions

Check the commit's Auditors table - Resign only applies to active auditor entries naming you
If you were only subscribed, use unsubscribe/notification settings instead
If you already resigned, nothing further is needed

Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

if (!$this->isViewerAnyActiveAuditor($object, $viewer)) {
  // hide or disable the Resign action
}

Prevention

Offer the action only when isViewerAnyActiveAuditor() is true - the class already exposes this check for isValid()
Teach users the difference between commit auditors and subscribers

When it happens

Trigger: A user who is CC'd but not an auditor tries Resign; an auditor who already resigned clicks it again; a Differential reviewer (not a commit auditor) attempts to resign from a commit.

Common situations: Confusion between Differential reviewers and Diffusion commit auditors; users trying to silence audit mail by 'resigning' from commits they were merely subscribed to.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of phacility/phabricator@5720a38cfe (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b28f93ef2ce09359. Report an issue: GitHub.