Pending Author Response action 📫

Remove a pending-response-label from an issue, if present, when the original issue author responds.

Optionally, add a follow-up label (actionable-label) to highlight that an action is required by the team.

The labels must exist in the repo in order for the action to add them to an issue.

Inputs

Input	Default	Required	Description
github-token		true	The GitHub token used to create an authenticated client
pending-response-label		true	Label to remove indicating that a response is required for further action
actionable-label		false	Label added to highlight that a user has responded and a follow-up is required

Usage

You can use the action by referencing the v1 branch:

name: pending-author-response
on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]

jobs:
  issue_commented:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: siegerts/pending-author-response@v1
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          pending-response-label: pending-response

Adding an actionable-label

name: pending-author-response
on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]

jobs:
  issue_commented:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: siegerts/pending-author-response@v1
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          pending-response-label: pending-response
          actionable-label: follow-up

Skip action unless the label is present on the issue and it's not a PR

Note: contains(github.event.issue.labels.*.name, 'pending-response') matches the label used in pending-response-label value.

  name: pending-author-response
  on:
    issue_comment:
      types: [created]

  jobs:
    issue_commented:
+     if: ${{ !github.event.issue.pull_request  && contains(github.event.issue.labels.*.name, 'pending-response') }}
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
      steps:
        - uses: siegerts/pending-author-response@v1
          with:
            github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
            pending-response-label: pending-response