Milestones

Managing milestones: create, close and assign to pull-request

Usage

This action is designed to be triggered on repository_dispatch events ⧉ and supports multiple events. It is not required to support all the events, each one of them can be used as a standalone.

name: Milestones

on:
  repository_dispatch:
    types:
      - milestones_assign
      - milestones_create
      - milestones_close
      - milestones_update

jobs:
  milestones:
    name: milestones
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: zattoo/milestones@v1
        with:
          token: ${{github.token}}
          milestone: ${{github.event.client_payload.milestone}}
          description: ${{github.event.client_payload.description}}
          due_on: ${{github.event.client_payload.due_on}}
          issue: ${{github.event.client_payload.issue}}

The workflow file have to be committed to the main branch before it can be triggered

Inputs

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
token	string	GitHub token	true
milestone	string	Milestone title	true
description	string	Description of the milestone	false
due_on	date as string	The date which the milestone shall be due on	false
issue	string	Issue to search for on pull-requests title	false

Events

Events can be triggered by web requests to /repos/{owner}/{repo}/dispatches using the POST method. read more

milestones_assign

Used to assign a milestone to a pull-request. The action will search for pull-request which includes the issue in their title. We suggest to use zattoo/issuer for validation.

Parameters

• milestone (required)
• issuer (required)

Code example for web request

{
    "event_type": "assign_milestone",
    "client_payload": {
        "milestone": "{{issue.fixVersions.name}}",
        "issue": "{{issue.key}}"
    }
}

milestones_create

Used to create a milestone

Parameters

• milestone (required)
• description (optional)
• due_on (optional)

Code example for web request

{
    "event_type": "create_milestone",
    "client_payload": {
        "milestone": "{{version.name}}",
        "description": "{{version.description}}",
        "due_on": "{{version.releaseDate}}"
    }
}

milestones_close

Used to close a milestone

Parameters

• milestone (required)

Code example for web request

{
  "event_type": "close_milestone",
  "client_payload": {
    "milestone": "{{version.name}}"
  }
}

milestones_update

Used to update a milestone

Parameters

• milestone (required)
• description (optional)
• due_on (optional)

Code example for web request

{
    "event_type": "update_milestone",
    "client_payload": {
        "milestone": "{{version.name}}",
        "description": "{{version.description}}",
        "due_on": "{{version.releaseDate}}"
    }
}