Automatically apply labels to the PR that the bot raises.

[ghuntley]

Describe the solution you'd like

Is there way way to make @all-contributors-release-bot automatically add labels to the PR it sends in? It would be nice to not have to do them by hand.

unoplatform/uno#1146 (comment)

Additional context

We are using your project over at https://github.com/unoplatform/uno/

Thank-you ❤️

[mfix22]

I'm really interested in this too! That way I can have Ranger automatically merge the pull requests for me too 🙌 (example)

[derberg]

You can easily workaround it with GitHub actions -> https://github.com/marketplace/actions/labeler

[mfix22]

Correct me if I am mistaken, but https://github.com/marketplace/actions/labeler can not be configured to only apply a label based on a specific author, right?

[derberg]

@mfix22 it is not something labeler can or cannot do, it is default GH Actions functionality. In your action, you have access to the information about the actor, the user that triggered the action. So you can add a condition that labeler is triggered only if specific user triggered the action (created an issue for example)

You have an example of how to do it in this other action https://github.com/hmarr/auto-approve-action#usage-instructions, I use this for a few months already and works like a charm

[mfix22]

Ahh, I see. Thanks @derberg. Taking this approach still requires creating two separate configs, and hooking them together, as well as knowing what the github.actor string is (allcontributors[bot] in this case).

[derberg]

@mfix22 you mean the full flow with labeling and merging, yes, sure. I'm just giving a hint here on how to deal with auto labeling before you get a feature in the bot :)