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Forgotten issue finder

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Forgotten issue finder

Lists issues of a repo that have a merged PR created at a later date referencing them

Installation

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

 
              
- name: Forgotten issue finder

              
  uses: keabarnes/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in keabarnes/forgotten-issue-finder

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Forgotten issue finder action

This action looks through the issues of a repo and finds any that have a merged PR referencing them. It outputs a list of issue links, which can be fed to a Slack message on a weekly/monthly cron job to make sure all issues that PRs have been made for are closed correctly.

Inputs

ignore-label

Issue label which can be used to mark issues to ignore them.

github-token

Optional Github token, defaults to use github.token from run context.

Outputs

issue-links

List of links that need to be checked.

Example usage

name: Find forgotten issues
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * 1"

jobs:
  find-issues:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Find the issues
        id: forgotten-issue-finder
        uses: keabarnes/[email protected]
        with:
          ignore-label: "Cleanup: ignore"
      - name: Slack Notification
        uses: rtCamp/action-slack-notify@v2
        env:
          ...
          SLACK_MESSAGE: ${{ steps.forgotten-issue-finder.outputs.issue-list }}
          ...