GitHub Merge Request Reminder

Sends a notification to a Slack webhook highlighting open pull requests for a given GitHub repository. If no pull requests are open, then no notification will be sent.

Environment Variables

Variable	Details	Example Values
GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN	The access token for the GitHub repository.
GITHUB_REPOS	The GitHub repos the pull requests are for. This should be comma separated.	bottlecapdave/github-pull-request-reminder,bottlecapdave/gitlab-merge-request-reminder
INCLUDE_WIP	Determines if work in progress pull requests should be included. This is true by default.	true or false
INCLUDE_DRAFT	Determines if draft pull requests should be included. This is true by default.	true or false
GITHUB_MANDATORY_LABELS	The labels that pull requests must have assigned to them. All labels must be present. This should be comma separated.	mandatory-label-1,mandatory-label-2
GITHUB_EXCLUDED_LABELS	The labels that pull requests must not have assigned to them. Any label must be present for the merge request to be ignored. This should be comma separated.	excluded-label-1,excluded-label-2
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL	The URL of the slack incoming webhook to send the notification to.
SLACK_TARGET	The target of the slack message. This is @here by default.	@here

Docker

This is available as a docker image, available on docker hub.

Example Uses

Because the logic is within a docker image, it can be run in a variety of places. Below I'll document examples of use.

GitHub Action

This is available as a GitHub Action. You can run it on a schedule like so

name: Pull Request Reminder
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 9 * * *"

jobs:
  pull-request-reminder:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Pull request reminder
        uses: BottlecapDave/GitHub-Pull-Request-Reminder@v1
        with:
          github-access-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          github-repos: ${{ github.repository }}
          include-wip: 'true'
          include-draft: 'true'
          mandatory-labels: 'test-label-1,test-label-2'
          excluded-labels: 'excluded-label-1,excluded-label-1'
          slack-webhook-url: ${{ secrets.TEST_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
          slack-target: '@here'

Build

You can run npm run docker-build to build a local docker image, which can then be run locally.

Releases

To release a new version, merge into main. The github CI will then create a release based on the commitizen messages.

Sponsorships

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