Create automatic reminders to update other repos when editing issue/PR templates
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Background
Follow-on from #576. This PR is to create an automation that will run whenever an issue or pull request template is modified. That automation will check related repos (e.g., ux-guide) to see if those repos have already been updated with the same template. If they have not, the automation should open a pull request on those repos with the necessary update. That way, the people working on these projects don't have to always remember to synchronize templates or manually do the work – a computer will remind them and do most of the work for them.
The synchronization cannot be 100% automated because the main branch of this repo is protected and cannot be pushed to directly. (The other repos should have similar restrictions, but they don't yet.) As a result, the automation has to wait for someone to approve and merge the changes.
Acceptance criteria (we'll know we're done when…)
- Creating or editing an issue or pull request template triggers the automation
- The automation opens an appropriate pull request on other repos if their templates are not the same
- The automation does not open a pull request on another repo if the other repo's templates are already the same
Tasks
- Create an automation that triggers when templates are changed
- Modify the automation so that it identifies only the templates changed
- Modify the automation so that it checks the other repos to see if they should be synced
- Modify the automation so that it opens pull requests on the other repos, if appropriate
Look into this action, which might already satisfy our needs: https://github.com/BetaHuhn/repo-file-sync-action
Closed by #597