Enable GitHub Actions Workflow for syncing project labels?

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Process

1. Export current labels from the most "verbose" project
2. Trim to the base items
3. Copy/paste into all projects
4. Modify accordingly
5. Add to repo
6. When adding a new "common" label, extend the versioned file for all applicable repos

Alternatives

• manually keep labels in sync across repos (using some form of that now, clunky)
• ?

Thoughts

If I am manually maintaining the file across X repos, wouldn't it be quicker to just jump between tabs to add the new labels?

References

• https://github.com/micnncim/label-exporter
• https://github.com/micnncim/action-label-syncer

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If I am manually maintaining the file across X repos, wouldn't it be quicker to just jump between tabs to add the new labels?

Yes (initial work), and No (requirements to keep all repos in sync with original labels).

Automation for incoming PRs/issues may be why label syncing is important; if the labels are not as expected, automation based on those labels will probably not work as expected, so enforcement via the syncing Workflow is crucial to allow dependable automation.

References:

• https://github.com/actions/labeler/blob/master/README.md
• https://github.com/cloudalchemy/ansible-pushgateway/blob/master/.github/labeler.yml
• https://github.com/cloudalchemy/ansible-pushgateway/blob/master/.github/labels.yml