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GitHub Action

Create Milestone

v1.1.2 Latest version

Create Milestone

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Create Milestone

Create a new milestone with the given title and description

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Create Milestone

uses: WyriHaximus/github-action-create-milestone@v1.1.2

Learn more about this action in WyriHaximus/github-action-create-milestone

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Milestone Create Github Action

Github Action that creates a new open milestone given the title and description.

Example output showing this action in action

Options

This action supports the following options.

title

The title (version) for the milestone.

  • Required: Yes
  • Type: string
  • Example: v1.0.0 or Magnetic North

description

An optional description for the milestone.

  • Required: No
  • Type: string

Output

This action has only one output and that's the number output. This is the number you see in the HTML URL of the milestone and can be used to refer to in other actions when creating PR's as shown in the example below.

Example

The following example works together with the WyriHaximus/github-action-get-previous-tag and WyriHaximus/github-action-next-semvers actions. Where it creates a new milestone based on information passed down from the previous two actions. (This snippet has been taken from the automatic code generation of wyrihaximus/fake-php-version.)

name: Generate
jobs:
  generate:
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - name: 'Get Previous tag'
        id: previoustag
        uses: "WyriHaximus/github-action-get-previous-tag@v1"
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
      - name: 'Get next minor version'
        id: semvers
        uses: "WyriHaximus/github-action-next-semvers@v1"
        with:
          version: ${{ steps.previoustag.outputs.tag }}
      - name: 'Create new milestone'
        id: createmilestone
        uses: "WyriHaximus/github-action-create-milestone@v1"
        with:
          title: ${{ steps.semvers.outputs.patch }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

License

Copyright 2019 Cees-Jan Kiewiet

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.