Instant Issues Action

This is a GitHub Action for Instant Issues.

This action aggregates all open issues into a single JSON file and force pushes it to the issues branch, so that the Instant Issues frontend can download it from raw.githubusercontent.com.

Upstream workflow

Create .github/workflows/aggregate-issues.yml with the following content:

name: Aggregate issues for Instant Issues

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened, closed, reopened, edited, deleted]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: instant-issues/action@master
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Downstream workflow

Create .github/workflows/aggregate-issues.yml with the following content:

name: Aggregate issues for Instant Issues

on:
  push:
  schedule:
    # run every hour
    - cron: '0 * * * *'

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: instant-issues/action@master
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Then you can create .github/workflows/instant-issue-repos.yml with, e.g.:

- name: someorg/someorg1
  disjointLabels: [bug, UX, new feature]

- name: someorg/someorg2

Technical Background

• Uploading GitHub artificats is more straightforward than force pushing but that's not an option because they don't have a persistent download URL.

• Uploading release assets is more straightforward than force pushing but that's not an option because the assets are served without the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.

• To not needlessly spam GitHub we upload issues using a force push. Since the GitHub REST API does not provide an endpoint for force pushing, we do the force pushing by running git in Docker.