Macro builder

[rnystrom]

Had a random idea after playing w/ Workflow.app and seeing the regex controls in Tweetbot.app...

We could create a custom action, or "macro", builder in settings that lets you make custom actions on repositories, issues, or PRs. Imagine making your own button that sat next to the "close", "labels", etc buttons that could do w/e you wanted:

• Automatically add certain labels + milestone
• Send a prefilled reply (w/ macros)
• etc

We can compose this as a set of rules, options, and actions:

• Rules
  • Repo name (match, regex)
  • Viewer is author
  • Type is PR
  • etc
• Options
  • Name
  • Icon (available octicon assets)
  • Color (hex, picker)
• Action
  • Reply w/ text
  • Prefill text view
  • Close
  • Merge
  • Add label (fuzzy text match)
  • Add milestone (fuzzy, hardcode, latest?)
  • Maybe these could display a picker?

I could imagine creating some to automatically tag issues as "missing-info", cc specific people, merge + delete branch, post a common-reply message....

The nice thing about framing this as a scripting/workflow setup is that it lets people add their own automations while opening up a world of possibilities... imagine stuff like send to Working Copy.app, or open URL in Workflow, or anything!

Crazy idea, but might be a really fun hack.

[Sherlouk]

Definitely loving some of these more unique features that takes us beyond GitHub desktop!