Ask HN: What are your favorite GitHub actions/bots?

Hey HN, I'm going to write a blog post about bots and automation in OSS communities.

I've been doing research, but I'd love to get input from the HN community. I've been amazing at how many OSS communities build their own Github bots tailored to their needs like - https://github.com/apps/boring-cyborg for Airflow - https://github.com/jekyll/jekyllbot for Jekyll - https://github.com/apps/google-ml-butler for TensorFlow

Please share any bots or actions you think are neat!

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devstein 2y ago ↗

https://github.com/Hebilicious/reproduire

tiborsaas 2y ago ↗

I don't have a favorite, but a problem I'm facing now might be solved by an action. I want to trigger a build in a repo when another repo has finished the CI pipeline.

jaimehrubiks 2y ago ↗

You can do it in two ways:

1. In the other repo, setup a webhook type of action event. And call it from the original repo

2. From the original repo, clone, change and push code in the other repo. Create an action event from push/pull-request/other.

On both cases you need a github token, either for accessing the other repo, or for calling the webhook.