exposing variable as an envar

Signed-off-by: vsoch <[email protected]>

README.md

@@ -26,22 +26,39 @@ https://github.com/spack/spack hpc,package-management
 https://github.com/singularityhub/sregistry containers,singularity
 ```
 
+### `label`
+
+**optional** By default, the repository will filter down to issues labeled with "good first issue".
+However, you can change this by setting this variable to something else.
+
+
 ## Example usage
 
 ```yaml
     steps:
     - name: Checkout Code
       uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - name: Generate First Issues
-      uses: rseng/[email protected].1
+      uses: rseng/[email protected].2
       with:
         repos-file: '.github/repos.txt'
         token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 ```
 
 You only need to define repos-file if you change the path (note that the above is changed from .github/repos.txt). It's
-highly recommended that you don't use master branch, but instead
-a version release or commit (as shown above).
+highly recommended that you don't use master branch, but instead a version release or commit (as shown above).
+Here is how you might update the label used:
+
+```yaml
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout Code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Generate First Issues
+      uses: rseng/[email protected]
+      with:
+        label: 'bug'
+        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+```
 
 ## Examples
 

action.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ inputs:
     description: 'The relative path in the repository for the repos.txt'
     required: true
     default: 'repos.txt'
+  label:
+    description: 'The label to generate an interface for'
+    required: true
+    default: 'good first issue'
   token:
     description: >
       Auth token used to fetch the repository.
@@ -19,3 +23,4 @@ runs:
   env:
     REPOS_FILE: ${{ inputs.repos-file }}
     GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.token }}
+    ISSUE_LABEL: ${{ inputs.label }}

scripts/generate-first-issues.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 # GitHub Workflow - we get variables from environment
 REPOS_FILE = os.environ.get("REPOS_FILE")
+ISSUE_LABEL = os.environ.get("ISSUE_LABEL", "good first issue")
 if not REPOS_FILE:
     sys.exit(f"{REPOS_FILE} must be defined.")
 
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 
 # Must authenticate
 headers = {"Authorization": f"token {token}"}
-data = {"state": "open", "labels": "good first issue"}
+data = {"state": "open", "labels": ISSUE_LABEL}
 
 # Documentation base is located at docs
 output_dir = "/github/workspace/docs/_issues"
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@
 
         # Add labels as tags
         tags = set([x["name"] for x in issue["labels"]])
-        tags.remove("good first issue")
+        tags.remove(ISSUE_LABEL)
         tags = list(tags)
 
         if extra_tags: