📅 4/27 @ 11:30 PT - Octokit automation: OpenAPI

[gr2m]

💁🏻 Octokit automation: OpenAPI
📅 April 27, 2021
🕐 11:30am Pacific Time
🎙️ no guests
🏷️ Action, OpenAPI, Octokit, Automation

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In this show, I'm walking through the automation process triggered by a new release of GitHub's official OpenAPI spec.

The recording can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1002874596

[gr2m]

The show is now archived on youtube, too: https://youtu.be/xDTHbL5qcvQ.

[oscard0m]

Great session @gr2m . I really enjoyed and liked to follow all the journey 🤖 . It's AMAZING the ecosystem of GitHub Actions you created.

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Here I leave you some feedback or thoughts about this session:

• Did you consider to productize this solution somehow so it is one-click alternative to dependabot or renovatebot ?
• https://github.com/apps/octokit-release-notifier url works but I'm not finding it when using search box in https://github.com/apps/. Is this something to report to GitHub?
• Is the code associated to the GitHub App public? https://github.com/gr2m/release-notifier-action. I would like to see the logic applied here.
• ℹ️ For the ones interested in the GitHub App to tackle semantic commit messages for PRs with one commit (mentioned in the video), you can follow up squash-commit-app

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Do you want to talk about automation?

Yes yes yes yes yes yes

[gr2m]

Did you consider to productize this solution somehow so it is one-click alternative to dependabot or renovatebot

I've been in that business before with https://greenkeeper.io/, I'm not interested to get into it again 😄

https://github.com/apps/octokit-release-notifier url works but I'm not finding it when using search box in https://github.com/apps/. Is this something to report to GitHub?

I didn't publish the app in the marketplace, that's why you cannot find it. I could, but I think it's to specialized.

Is the code associated to the GitHub App public? https://github.com/gr2m/release-notifier-action. I would like to see the logic applied here.

There is no code, that's the beauty of it. A GitHub App registration such as https://github.com/apps/octokit-release-notifier is just a means of authentication. I pass the app's ID and a private key to https://github.com/gr2m/release-notifier-action, and then the action code is iterating through all repositories that the octokit-release-notifier app is installed on and creates the repository dispatch event.

ℹ️ For the ones interested in the GitHub App to tackle semantic commit messages for PRs with one commit (mentioned in the video), you can follow up squash-commit-app

Oh yes, when are we going to build https://github.com/gr2m/squash-commit-app @oscard0m?

[oscard0m]

There is no code, that's the beauty of it. A GitHub App registration such as https://github.com/apps/octokit-release-notifier is just a means of authentication. I pass the app's ID and a private key to https://github.com/gr2m/release-notifier-action, and then the action code is iterating through all repositories that the octokit-release-notifier app is installed on and creates the repository dispatch event.

Ok. I was missing the flow on this part. It's a very smart solution.

[oscard0m]

There is no code, that's the beauty of it. A GitHub App registration such as https://github.com/apps/octokit-release-notifier is just a means of authentication. I pass the app's ID and a private key to https://github.com/gr2m/release-notifier-action, and then the action code is iterating through all repositories that the octokit-release-notifier app is installed on and creates the repository dispatch event.

Ok. I was missing the flow on this part. It's a very smart solution.

Oh yes, when are we going to build https://github.com/gr2m/squash-commit-app @oscard0m?

I think I will take it next week. I want to cath up with all the stuff I have open and this should be a quick win.