It has to be approved by a person (the manager/owner) because if you automate that part then it may not be in compliance with certain regulation
If you were to automate the approval then why even ask for approval?
Edit: just to add, you can make the UX for approval as easy as possible (slack integration, bulk approvals, etc) in cases in which is necessary by regulation.
You can also leverage certain attributes of the identity and risk profile to provide automatic approval on certain workflows to streamline the experience
automate the approval means here is that the person who will finally give you the approval, doesn't have to do this manually, he can just automate this permission giving process using github or jira API.
I think I understand this, and I hope this doesn’t sound like me repeating myself.
My point was that there are cases in which you cannot fully automate this (compliance, audits, regulation, etc)
So the solution will be to use Jira’s/GH’s API and build an integration that makes it easy for a manager/owner to approve request, without having to log into Jira/GH
