Epic issues for GitHub

Note

This action vs. GitHub task lists

This action was created before GitHub introduced the task lists feature, which esentially does the same thing: synces the status of a task list item with a reference to an issue based on the issues state.

However, you can still use this action for the auto close epic feature.

There is even more sopishicated tasklists (not the missing space) feature in works at private beta, so the future of this action is uncertain, but for now it should remain functional.

This action allows you to create epic issues on GitHub. Simply label an issue as epic and reference another issues in the task list:

This is an epic issue. List of individual issues is below:

- [ ] First issue #1
- [ ] Another issue (#2)
- [ ] Last issue #3 (not that important)

The action automatically updates the task list when referenced issue is closed (or reopened).

Inputs

github-token
the GitHub token secret (use ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} in action YAML)
required
epic-label-name
name of the label you want to use for epic issues
default: epic
auto-close-epic
auto close epic when all referenced issues are closed
default: false

Example usage

name: Update epics
on:
  issues:
    types: [opened, closed, reopened]
jobs:
  epics:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Update epic issues
    steps:
      - name: Run epics action
        uses: cloudaper/epics-action@v1
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          epic-label-name: feature
          auto-close-epic: true