comment-pending-deployment-info.yaml

# Inspired from https://stefanbuck.com/blog/codeless-contributions-with-github-issue-forms
name: Comment on issues with `new hub` label that are requesting a deployment with the pending information
on:
  issues:
    types:
      - labeled
jobs:
  ask-for-pending-information:
    if: github.event.label.name == 'new hub'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      issues: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Parse new hub request issue template form
        uses: stefanbuck/github-issue-praser@v3
        id: issue-parser
        with:
          template-path: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/2_new-hub-provide-info.yml
      - name: Find missing info in form
        shell: python
        id: find-missing-info
        run: |
          import os

          form = ${{ steps.issue-parser.outputs.jsonString }}
          # This will hold a string with all the pending information in the form
          pending_info = ""
          community_rep = form.get("community_representative_handle", None)

          # Parse the form entries
          for form_entry_id, form_entry_value in form.items():
              # Add the form entry ids that were empty or marked as pending
              # to a string separated by `<br>-`
              # where <br> is HTML line break for a better readability when rendered.
              if (
                  form_entry_id != "tasks_to_deploy"
                  and "optional" not in form_entry_id
                  and (not form_entry_value or form_entry_value == "pending")
              ):
                  # Form ids have `_` in them, so replace their occurrences with a space
                  # to improve readability
                  pending_info += f'- {form_entry_id.replace("_", " ")}<br>'
          # Export the `pending_info` string to GITHUB_OUTPUT to be used in following steps
          with open(os.environ["GITHUB_OUTPUT"], "a") as f :
              print(f"pending_info={pending_info}", file=f)
              print(f"community_rep={community_rep}", file=f)
      - name: Render comment template using information from the `find-missing-info` step before
        id: template
        uses: chuhlomin/render-template@v1.10
        with:
          template: .github/comment-templates/comment-pending-deployment-info.md
          vars: |
            pending_info: "${{ steps.find-missing-info.outputs.pending_info }}"
            community_rep: "${{ steps.find-missing-info.outputs.community_rep }}"
            issue_author: "${{ github.event.issue.user.login }}"
      - name: Create comment
        if: ${{ steps.find-missing-info.outputs.pending_info }}
        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v4
        with:
          issue-number: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
          body: ${{ steps.template.outputs.result }}