create-standup-discussions

This GitHub Action can be used to create a standup discussion for teams within a GitHub Organization. Using the schedule event, you can trigger this daily, weekly, or on whatever schedule makes sense for your teams.

Setup

Create a Personal Access Token

In order to create discussions for the teams in your organization, you'll need a GitHub API key with the write:discussion permission. You need to make this personal access token available as GITHUB_TOKEN in the environment. Keep in mind that the default Action token does not have this permission and that environment variables prefixed with GITHUB_ are reserved for official GitHub use only.

Create a Standup Template

Finally you'll need to create a standup template markdown file as .github/STANDUP_TEMPLATE.md that will be used to create the discussions. Below is the recommended default contents. You can customize this by setting the filename input.

Share your daily standup update here. Respond to this discussion before your
standup starts in the following format:

```
**Yesterday**:
 - 

**Today**:
 - 

**Blockers**:
 - 
```

Usage

name: Create Daily Standup Discussions

on:
  schedule:
    - cron:  '1 0 * * 1-5' # Runs M-F at 12:01am UTC

jobs:
  create_discussions:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: MLH-Fellowship/create-standup-discussions@v1.x
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_ORGANIZATION_TOKEN }}
        with:
          organization: "MLH-Fellowship"
          team_slugs: "team-1, team-2"

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