GitHub Action
random-1on1-questions-action
This action posts a comment with a list of randomly selected 1-on-1 questions when a new issue matches a specific label.
Questions are taken from https://github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions (for now, copied inside this repo).
The following workflow will run each time a new issue is manually opened with a matching label:
on:
issues:
types: [opened]
jobs:
questions:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Generate random questions
steps:
- name: Check out repository
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Generate questions
uses: pierluigi/[email protected]
with:
github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# Optional: ovverride these defaults
# num-categories: "3" # how many question categories
# num-questions: "1" # how many questions per category
# label: "1on1" # which label triggers this workflow
It's possible to define the number of categories and the amount of question per each category (see workflow defined above).
A more complete scenario is using the issue-bot action to automatically create an issue based on a schedule:
name: Weekly one to one
on:
schedule:
- cron: 0 12 * * 1 # Every monday at noon – https://crontab.guru
jobs:
weekly_meeting:
name: create new issue
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Set date to next week
run: echo "::set-env name=DATE::$(date -u -d '+6 days' '+%B %d %Y')"
# Repo code checkout required if `template` is used
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: issue-bot
id: issue-bot
uses: imjohnbo/issue-bot@v2
with:
title: "1:1 for ${{ env.DATE }}"
assignees: "foo, bar" # GitHub handles without the @
labels: "1on1"
pinned: true
close-previous: true
template: ".github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/one-to-one.md" # assignees, labels will be overridden if present in YAML header
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Generate random questions
if: success()
uses: pierluigi/[email protected]
with:
issue-number: ${{ steps.issue-bot.outputs.issue-number }}
github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# Optional: ovverride these defaults
# num-categories: "3" # how many question categories
# num-questions: "1" # how many questions per category
# label: "1on1" # which label triggers this workflow
Please note the added issue-number argument coming from the previous step's output. If this is specified, the action will fetch the issue details as these wouldn't be available to the running context (the event we're responding to is a schedule, so no issue is available yet).
This action is designed to run each time a new issue is opened (unfortunately at the time of writing it's not possible to conditionally skip an entire job based on issues having a label defined dynamically).
If the issue contains the specified label (checked during execution, by default inputs.label = "1on1") the action will generate a number of questions (divided by category) and post them as a comment to the issue.
This repo is already set up to contain an example workflow and issue template (both inside the .github folder) that can be reused. To see it in action, simply open a One to one issue!