Hi,
Thank you for creating and maintaining this action. I am opening a feature request because I think it would be very useful to manage labels from all repositories in an organization by allowing the configuration file to be centralized (or maybe I am just not seeing something, and it is already possible).
I've tried the action for a single repository, and it works awesome. Then, I wanted to set this action at an organizational level (in the special type .github
repository - not folder - ) and reuse it across many repositories to define the (massive) configuration file only once. Today, the configuration is not declared inline in the same workflow but in a configurable external file. However, the external configuration file is always assumed to live inside the repository whose job is calling the action. While I can centralize the action with an on.workflow_call
it seems I cannot centralize its configuration.
I understand that I can copy and paste the configuration file across all my organization repositories, but I thought that if the configuration file could be loaded externally or, more simply, defined inline in the same workflow YML, it would be very useful to reuse it everywhere.
I understand there is no way to specify a remote configuration file, so this feature request would allow this:
On a shared repository that contains all label actions defined, like https://github.com/orgname/.github
:
# file git/orgname/.github/.github/workflows/label-actions.yml
name: 'Label Actions'
on:
workflow_call:
...
jobs:
action:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: dessant/label-actions@v4
with:
# resolve against an external repo
config-path: https://github.com/orgname/.github/.github/label-actions.yml@main
And then all repos wanting to use this action would simply call it like this:
name: 'Label Actions'
on:
issues:
types: [labeled, unlabeled]
permissions:
contents: read
issues: write
jobs:
labels:
uses: orgname/.github/.github/workflows/label-actions.yml@main
Would that make sense?