Creating a template from this repo doesn't run actions automatically

[marissamarym]

The actions in the /workflow file are waiting on a change to those files, and that's not triggered when the repo is created.

Right now, you'd have to edit both the label and milestone yml files to trigger the workflows.

We want the actions to trigger automatically upon repo creation.

[marissamarym]

Richard Robinson thanks for taking this- let me know if you have any Qs!

[rr-codes]

Marissa M Could you give a bit more information about the issue? I’m a bit confused about the actual problem

[marissamarym]

For sure, here are the repro steps:

1. A user sees this repo template with built in actions
2. They create a repository from the template
3. When they check the actions tab in GitHub, they see that no actions have run yet (and the actions are responsible for setting the labels and milestones).

This is because the actions are triggered on the event of changing a certain file, but when you create a new repo, GitHub doesn’t send file changed events for all the files. So because the events aren’t sent, the labels and milestones aren’t being initialized

[marissamarym]

The task is to figure out if there is an event that is sent after a repository is created that we could additionally listen to, to trigger the actions

[rr-codes]

ah ok, that makes more sense, thanks!!

[marissamarym]

👍

[rr-codes]

do you think this event also triggers when a master branch is created?

[rr-codes]

Marissa M can you give me permission to push to a branch for this repo please?

[rr-codes]

Marissa M how do I actually test if my changes fixed the issue? Since you can’t use Use this template from a particular branch, only master

[marissamarym]

hmm not an ideal solution, but you might have to create a fork with your changes, make that a template, and test making a repo out of it. pretty manual but good thing that GH doesn't charge for new repos!

[marissamarym]

And yeah I think listening to create could possibly work

[rr-codes]

this means it works right?

[rr-codes]

and they both just completed

[marissamarym]

Yeah looks like it! If you create a separate branch, does it trigger? We probably dont want it to trigger on new branches other than main/master

[rr-codes]

lemme check

[rr-codes]

ah yes it does trigger on a new branch creation

[rr-codes]

ill see if theres any options

[rr-codes]

ok ya it doesnt seem to allow you to specify the branch