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Issue and Pull Request virtual assistant

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Issue and Pull Request virtual assistant

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Issue and Pull Request virtual assistant

Automates tasks on pull requests and issues actions

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Issue and Pull Request virtual assistant

uses: ppapapetrou76/virtual-assistant@0.4.0

Learn more about this action in ppapapetrou76/virtual-assistant

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Issue & Pull Request virtual assistant

Implements a GitHub Action that performs actions on issues and/or pull requests based on configurable conditions.

At the moment it provides the following actions

  • Labeler
    • Auto-label issues
    • Auto-label pull requests
    • Check issues for the existence of at least one label from a given list and auto-label if it's not found
  • Assigner
    • Auto-add issues to a project column - only repository projects are currently supported

Installing

Add a .github/workflows/main.yml file to your repository with these contents:

name: Virtual Assistant

on: [issues, pull_request]

jobs:
  build:

	runs-on: ubuntu-latest

	steps:
	- uses: ppapapetrou76/virtual-assistant@0.3
	  env:
		GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

Then, add a ./github/virtual-assistant.yml with the configuration as described below.

if you use repository-based projects, ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} provides appropriate access privileges to this GitHub action. For organization-based projects the default GitHub token might not be enough so you need to follow these steps

  1. Create a new personal github access token by enabling repo and admin:org permissions. Copy the value of the created token
  2. Create a new project secret under ( https://github.com/elastic/YOUR_PROJECT/settings/secrets ). Name it as you want (for instance ACTIONS_TOKEN) and paste the value of the personal access token you created in step 1.
  3. Replace ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} with ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_TOKEN }} in your yml configuration

Configuration

Configuration can be stored at ./github/virtual-assistant.yml as below

The labeler action can be configured for issues and pull-requests. The labels property accepts a list of labels and these labels will be added to the issues/pull-requests The actions property accepts a list of event actions to trigger the labeler The at-least-one property accepts a list of labels and a default label.

The assigner action can be configured for issues as below The project property is composed of a url property which is the url of your project (just grab it from your browser) and a column property which is the name of your project column (case sensitive)

The assigner action can be configured for pull requests as below The actions property accepts a list of event actions to trigger the assigner The assignee property accepts a property auto with the values false or true. If it's set to true then the user who created the pr will be assigned to the pr

labeler:
  issues:
    labels:
      - label1
      - label2
      - area:label3
    actions:
      - opened
      - milestoned
    at-least-one:
      labels:
        - priority:1
        - priority:2
        - priority:3
      default: priority:2

  pull-requests:
    labels:
      - label1
      - label2
    actions:
      - opened
      - synchronize

assigner:
  pull-requests:
    assignee:
      auto: true
    actions:
      - opened
      - synchronize
  issues:
    project:
      url: https://github.com/ppapapetrou76/virtual-assistant/projects/1
      column: To do
    actions:
      - opened
      - milestoned

For example, given the above configuration

the action will

  • add to all new pull request the labels : label1 and label2
  • assign all new pull request to the user who created the pull request
  • add to all new issues the labels : label1,label2 and area:label3
  • check all new issues if at least one of the labels priority:1,priority:2,priority:3 exists and if not it will add the label priority:2
  • add all new issues to the project with number 1 under the column To do