💁🏻 Automating gr2m/helpdesk: issue forms - part II
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Automating gr2m/helpdesk: issue forms part II

In the first part of the series on using issue forms in this repository, I used @stefanbuck's https://github.com/stefanbuck/github-issue-parser to parse the newly created issue but ran into some problems. In this episode I'll debug that problem with the goal to parse all the information from the form and update the issue body using a custom template.

Outline

1. Show the issue forms I created for this repository and the problem I ran into with the parsing
2. Debug and hopefully resolve the problem
3. Define a custom template and use it to update the issue body

TODOs

Before the show

• Prepare two show templates: one for show ideas, one for actual shows.
• 30 minute announcement tweet
  (https://twitter.com/gr2m/status/1423322723103674372)
• 30 minute announcement comment
  (📅 8/5 @ 10am PT - Automating gr2m/helpdesk: issue forms part II #42 (comment))

When show begins

• start of show tweet
  (https://twitter.com/gr2m/status/1423329525618733057)
• comment on issue
  (📅 8/5 @ 10am PT - Automating gr2m/helpdesk: issue forms part II #42 (comment))
• Set twitter profile url
  (https://twitter.com/gr2m)

After the show

• Reset twitter profile after the show
  (https://twitter.com/gr2m)
• recording available tweet

Recording

I've been muted for the first 30 minutes, sorry :( So here is a cut starting at ~31 minutes

Shownotes

• The issue parser action by @stefanbuck: http://github.com/stefanbuck/github-issue-praser
• The issue form I worked on during the show: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/02_show.yml
• The workflow that parses and updates the issue: .github/workflows/parse-new-issue.yml