GitHub Automate

Target Audience

• Developers: Those who work with GitHub and GitLab and want to automate issue management related to software releases.
• Project Managers: Professionals looking to streamline communication and task assignment related to software updates.
• DevOps Engineers: Individuals responsible for CI/CD processes who want to ensure that issues are created automatically when releases occur.
• Teams: Any team that manages software projects and needs to keep track of issues related to new releases efficiently.

Problem Solved

This workflow addresses the challenge of ensuring that issues are created in GitLab when a new release is made in GitHub, particularly when no existing issues match the release. It automates the process of checking for related issues and creating new ones, reducing manual oversight and improving project management efficiency.

Workflow Steps

1. Schedule Trigger: The workflow is triggered on a weekly basis using a cron job.
2. Get Latest Release: It retrieves the latest release from a specified GitHub repository.
3. List Existing Issues: Simultaneously, it lists all existing issues in a specified GitLab repository.
4. Merge Data: The workflow merges the information from the latest release and the existing issues to analyze them together.
5. Check for Existing Issues: A function checks whether there is an existing issue related to the latest release. If a matching issue is found, the workflow terminates.
6. Create New Issue: If no matching issue exists, a new issue is created in GitLab with relevant details about the release.