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Set Label When Approved

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Set Label When Approved

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Set Label When Approved

Set label when PR is approved

Installation

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

 
              
- name: Set Label When Approved

              
  uses: TobKed/label-when-approved-action@v1.4
Learn more about this action in TobKed/label-when-approved-action

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Label When Approved action

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Context and motivation

Label When Approved is an action that checks is Pull Request is approved and assign label to it. Label is not set or removed when Pull Request has awaiting requested changes.

Setting label is optional that only output can be used in the workflow.

The required input require_committers_approval says is approval can be done by people with read access to the repo or by anyone. It may be useful in repositories which requires committers approvals like Apache Software Foundation projects. By default, when the PR does not have "approved" status or looses its aproval status the label is removed. This behaviour can be disabled when remove_label_when_approval_missing is set to false.

It can be used in workflows triggered by "pull_request_review" or "workflow_run". When used on "pull_request_review" any workflows triggered from pull request created from fork will fail due to insufficient permissions. Because of this support for "workflow_run" was added. It should be triggered by workflows "pull_request_review" and requires additional input pullRequestNumber. Pull request number can be obtained by using potiuk/get-workflow-origin) action (see example workflow-run-event).

Inputs and outputs

Inputs

Input Required Example Comment
token yes ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} The github token passed from ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
label no Approved by committers Label to be added/removed to the Pull Request if approved/not approved
require_committers_approval no true Is approval from user with write permission required
remove_label_when_approval_missing no true Should label be removed when approval is missing
comment no PR approved by at least one committer and no changes requested. Add optional comment to the PR when approved (requires label input to be set)
pullRequestNumber no ${{ steps.source-run-info.outputs.pullRequestNumber }} Pull request number if triggered by "worfklow_run"

Outputs

Output
isApproved is Pull Request approved
labelSet was label set
labelRemoved was label removed

Examples

Workflow Run event

name: "Label when approved"
on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: ["Workflow triggered on pull_request_review"]
    types: ['requested']

jobs:

  label-when-approved:
    name: "Label when approved"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: "Get information about the original trigger of the run"
        uses: potiuk/get-workflow-origin@v1_2
        id: source-run-info
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          sourceRunId: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
      - name: Label when approved by anyone
        uses: TobKed/label-when-approved-action@v1.2
        id: label-when-approved-by-anyone
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          require_committers_approval: 'true'
          label: 'Approved by committer'
          comment: 'PR approved by at least one committer and no changes requested.'
          pullRequestNumber: ${{ steps.source-run-info.outputs.pullRequestNumber }}

Pull Request Review event

name: Label when approved
on: pull_request_review

jobs:

  label-when-approved:
    name: "Label when approved"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      isApprovedByCommiters: ${{ steps.label-when-approved-by-commiters.outputs.isApproved }}
      isApprovedByAnyone: ${{ steps.label-when-approved-by-anyone.outputs.isApproved }}
    steps:
      - name: Label when approved by commiters
        uses: TobKed/label-when-approved-action@v1.2
        id: label-when-approved-by-commiters
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          label: 'ready to merge (committers)'
          require_committers_approval: 'true'
          remove_label_when_approval_missing: 'false'
          comment: 'PR approved by at least one committer and no changes requested.'
      - name: Label when approved by anyone
        uses: TobKed/label-when-approved-action@v1.2
        id: label-when-approved-by-anyone
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Development environment

It is highly recommended tu use pre commit. The pre-commits installed via pre-commit tool handle automatically linting (including automated fixes) as well as building and packaging Javascript index.js from the main.ts Typescript code, so you do not have to run it yourself.

License

MIT License covers the scripts and documentation in this project.