Open Source 101: Beyond CI/CD

🎯 Goal

Use open source GitHub Actions to automate tasks and discuss making your very own GitHub Action.

💻 Steps

GitHub Actions can do much more than CI/CD. In this section, we'll consider how to use existing open source actions for three tasks:

1. Apply a triage label to new issues

Hints

1. Browse GitHub Marketplace, this awesome list of actions, or Google for ideas.

2. The actions org has some interesting actions, but so does the community 👀.

Solution

name: "Triage"
on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  triage:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: Naturalclar/issue-action@v1.0.0
        with:
          keywords: '[""]'
          labels: '["triage"]'
          github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

2. Greet first time contributors (pull request or issue) with a greeting like "Hello, new contributor!"

Hints

1. Browse GitHub Marketplace, this awesome list of actions, or Google for ideas.

2. The actions org has some interesting actions, but so does the community 👀.

Solution

name: Greet first time contributors

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  greet:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/first-interaction@v1
      with:
        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        issue-message: 'Welcome! Thanks for opening an issue in this project!'

3. (Together) Make our very own Hello World action

🏅 Extra credit

• Write your own action
• Publish it to GitHub Marketplace