Sync descriptions and questions to delphi-epidata

[rzats]

Prerequisites:

• Unless it is a hotfix it should be merged against the dev branch
• Branch is up-to-date with the branch to be merged with, i.e. dev
• Build is successful
• Code is cleaned up and formatted

Summary

As part of the "Create Release" action in the www-covidcast repo, creates a PR in the delphi-epidata repo that updates (copies) two text files from www-covidcast.

Tested out in my fork of this repo. A link to a successful run can be found here, and the PR it created it is cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata#1154.

PREREQUISITE: Add a secret to this repo called CMU_DELPHI_DEPLOY_MACHINE_PAT, which is a personal access token with access to both this repo and delphi-epidata.

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[melange396]

very nice! have you tried this when the files already exist in the target repo? i presume cp does not complain about overwriting them. also, if there is no change to the files, does the "create PR" step exit with a graceful no-op?

[rzats]

@melange396 I've applied the changes!

i presume cp does not complain about overwriting them

indeed! it just overwrites silently

also, if there is no change to the files, does the "create PR" step exit with a graceful no-op?

Yep, that action doesn't create a pull request with +0/-0 if there are no changes

[melange396]

LGTM!