Open Github issue with contents of web form

[gkiar]

Add web form to bottom of index.html that, when filed, opens a GitHub issue with the contents of the form.

Ideally, the form fields would be something like the following (** indicates required):

• *"Entry Category": {Course, Initiative, Data Repository, Organization, Tool}
• *"Entry Name": <string>
• *"Author": <string>
• *"URL": <string>, ideally tested to be a valid URL
• if tool:
  • "Boutiques descriptor url": <string>, ideally tested to be a valid URL
  • "Docker container url": <string>, ideally tested to be a valid URL
  • "Singularity contaienr url": <string>, ideally tested to be a valid URL

[Himanshi-Khandelwal]

@gkiar this means after filling the webform , automatically a github issue will open?

[gkiar]

Ideally, yes! Note: the website is hosted on GitHub pages so I think we can leverage the API exposed to do some things, but I'm not 100% sure this is possible. I'd love either a working prototype or evidence telling me I need to ask for something possible :)

[satra]

take a look at mavo.io (it's all github based, and does exactly what's needed for this situation). i would love to see the backend store again become something that's queriable (e.g., json-ld) rather than just a store (json). with mavo, the end-user can contribute without knowing db details, and the db can then be more useful for programmatic things.

[Himanshi-Khandelwal]

@satra but in mavo,io there is nothing related to creating issues on github.

[satra]

@Himanshi-Khandelwal - the way mavo.io works is to fork the repository and send a pull-request to the upstream repo, if the owner does not have write privileges to the repo.

effectively it uses github as a database and the PR mechanism for making changes.

[gisete]

I sent a PR but closed it just FYI. I wanted it to count towards my hacktoberfest contribution but forgot it only starts on the 1st 😄

[noraj]

Guys, I come from a google search. I think you can use StaticMan so the user submit a web form, a staticman webhook is called, the staticman bot create a branch and a PR to your project. I wish it can help. I'm looking for the exact same thing but working with Gitlab.

[gkiar]

Hi @noraj, thanks for pointing this out! If you're planning to share your solution once you make it, I'd be very interested in seeing it - thanks! :)

[noraj]

@gkiar If you want to see a solution take a look at the StaticMan doc and demo. Don't expect a solution from me, it seems there is no equivalent to StaticMan and StaticMan is working only for github so I can't use it.

The other way to do is to call a remote on a server when the form is submitted, and this script will use the private API of gitlab/github/bitbucket/whatever to open an issue/MR/PR/whatever. But this is a no way because it requires a external server that is breaking the whole idea to use gitlab + gitlab pages + gitlab CI in my case.

[hawkeye116477]

Looks like many years passed after that time, but there is also another solution, you can use Google Apps Script if you want anonymous issues => https://ez34.net/2016/12/publish-anonymous-issues-on-github.html. In that tutorial is mentioned about creating form with Google Forms, but you can natively embed it following https://www.parthkabra.me/html/google-forms-embed, so you will need to create 2 forms, one on website and another at Google and copy action URL from Google.