Automating Your open Source Workflow With GitHub Actions

Maintaining an OSS project can be tedious, especially when dealing with tasks manually. What if you could automate these tasks? I will share how to use GitHub Actions to create workflows for your project and save time to focus on the fun stuff: watching memes and cat videos.

Transcript

4. www.africastalking.com Automating Your Open Source Workflow with GitHub Actions www.community.elarian.com
5. Speaker Clifford Ouma Open Source Community Manager Open Terms Archive Twitter: @clifford_ouma LinkedIn: Clifford Ouma
6. What I will cover Maintaining OSS GitHub Actions to the rescue GitHub Actions in Open Source maintenance Conclusion
7. Get the Slides
8. A sneak peak into the world of Open Source maintainance 1. Maintaining OSS
9. www.community.elarian.com • Manage and maintain open source projects • Have the authority to accept or reject contributions • Grow a thriving community around the project Open Source Maintainers
10. www.community.elarian.com • Coordinating workflow and communication with contributors • Managing workload and expectations from users • Creating a positive contributor onboarding experience • Rewarding and recognizing contributions and achievements of contributors Challenges faced by maintainers
11. Leveraging GitHub Actions for automation 2. GitHub Actions to the Rescue
12. www.community.elarian.com • Reusable code to perform a task in a workflow • Uses the YAML syntax/files • Can run defined script to extend their functionality What are GitHub Actions?
13. Key parts of a GitHub Actions www.community.elarian.com Event Specific activity that triggers the workflow Job A series of steps in a workflow executed by same runner Step A single task that can be executed in a job
14. Example GitHub Action
15. From GitHub Action tab of the repo Creating GitHub Actions
16. Writing your own Actions Creating GitHub Actions
17. https://github.com/marketplace?type=actions
18. GitHub Actions in the market place
19. Bringing the concept of GitHub Actions into the context of Open Source maintainace 3. GitHub Actions in Open Source maintenance
20. Open Source Communities are built as systems and differ depending on the needs www.community.elarian.com
21. Issue Triaging • Labelling • Assigning • Closing • Commenting Pull Request Management • Checking • Testing • Reviewing • Merging Community management • Notifications • Appreciations • Welcoming and onboarding • Rewarding GitHub Actions in Open Source Maintenance Use Cases www.africastalking.com www.community.elarian.com
22. Automatically assign issues to team or contributors Automatically label issues based on type, priority or status Close stale, resolved or duplicate issues Comment on issues with helpful information Issue Triaging
23. Run code quality and standard checks on pull requests Request reviews from team or contributors Merge pull requests that pass all tests and have approvals Check in on progress from contributors Pull Request Management
24. Welcome new contributors Send notifications about important information Reward contributors for achievements and contribution Community Management
25. https://github.com/hackforla/website/wiki/HfLA-GitHub-Actions
26. www.community.elarian.com • Allows you to reuse existing workflows in your own repositories or across different repositories • Works for workflows with a workflow_call trigger • Leverage uses keyword to reference the reusable workflow file Reusable GitHub Actions
27. Key takeaways from this presentation 4. Conclusion
28. How Automation helps Improve productivity Increase contributor satisfaction Grow your open source community
30. More resources to help you explore use of GitHub Actions in the world of Open Source 4. Resources and Links
31. Feedback Form https://bit.ly/os-automate-form
32. Speaker GitHub Student Developer Pack Apply for the student developer pack here https://gh.io/africastalksummit
33. Contribute to Open Source for Good Make Open Source contributions to Digital Public Goods https://forgoodfirstissue.dev/ https://github.com/OpenTermsA rchive/contrib-declarations
34. Find useful GitHub Actions • https://github.com/sdras/aw esome-actions • https://github.com/hackforla /website/wiki/HfLA-GitHub- Actions
35. Learn About GitHub Actions • https://skills.github.com/ • https://learn.microsoft.com/e n- us/training/paths/automate- workflow-github-actions/
36. Thank you