Repo Topics: Adding repo topics to cookiecutter during repository creation

[natalialuzuriaga]

MENTOR

• @natalialuzuriaga
• USDC SWE Fellow, OSPO
• Slack

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

When a repository is created on GitHub via cookiecutter, we would like to automatically add repo topics. This may come in handy for project visibility in search, running GHA for those under a certain repo topic, and metadata for our metrics website

SCOPING

• 1-2 days

SKILLS NEEDED

Back-end, Python

REQUIRED DELIVERABLES

Make as clear of a step-by-step list as you can

1. Determine required Repo topics to be added. We want maturity model tier for sure.
2. Add a prompt to collect other repo topics the user would like to add (limit of 40 topics I believe?)
3. After collecting the array of topics, create a post-gen hook that uses the GitHub API to add these topics to the repository upon repo creation

DESIRED DELIVERY WINDOW

• Any

NOTES/INSPO

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• - Yes, I agree to spend file a project proposal ticket
• - Yes, I agree this project falls within a 2 week or less (ideally less) scope of time
• - Yes, I agree to spend an hour per week of office hours and 1x1 mentoring
• - Yes, I agree to spend an hour at the end of the sprint for filling out a Retro Template