Repo Man

A utility for ensuring that a GitHub repository has the correct set of labels and milestones. The owner can create a toml file to configure a list of labels and milestones, and a list of mappings to rename older labels correctly.

Configuration

Given the following configuration file:

repositories = [ "example/fox", "example/wolf" ]

[[label]]
name = "bug"
color = "f29513"
mappings = [ "defect", "error" ]

[[label]]
name = "Jump In"
color = "123456"

[[label]]
name = "An Old Label"
delete = true
color = "123456"

[[milestone]]
name = "Accepted Major"
description = "Bucket for breaking changes to pull for next Major"

repo_man would create two labels, bug and Jump In, and would ensure any existing issues labelled as defect or error were relabelled as bug. It would then create an Accepted Major milestone.

Syntax

The config file consists of three arrays, repositories, label and milestone.

repositories is an array of organization/repository names.

A label may have the following keys: name; color.

A milestone may have the following keys: name; description; state; and due_on. state and due_date are currently unimplemented.

There is a special key, mappings, that accepts an array of existing labels or milestones that should be renamed to the current one. Renaming is done by applying the new label and then removing the old one, so it should be idempotent in the face of failed runs.

Running

RepoMan expects you to have a configured .netrc file that contains an API token for GitHub; see https://gist.github.com/technoweenie/1072829 for discussion. For example, mine contains:

machine api.github.com
  login thommay
  password my_api_key_for_github

To get the current set of labels and milestones for a repository to a given file, run:

bundle exec bin/dump_labels REPOSITORY FILE

To apply a config file to a repository, run

bundle exec bin/repo_man -c config.toml