Github action for Contextual QA Checklists

Tests are nice, but sometimes you want an additional checklist of items to check before merging a PR (for example, grammar check for documentation changes or last-minute check of visual look). This action allows you to build filename-based checklists to remind the PR author about.

The action reads a checklist specification file (by default CHECKLIST.yml) from the repository root and submits a checklist comment to new/modified PRs based on what files were modified.

Example

Checklist specification

CHECKLIST.yml

paths:
  "README.md":
    - Did you remember to add code examples for newly added methods?
    - Did you make sure that all the example code still functions as expected?
    - Did you remember to update screenshots to match new updates?
  "src/components/**/*.js":
    - Did you check that the component visual look still matches design documents?
  "docs/**":
    - Did you run changes past the copywrite team?

Only one property, paths, is supported at the moment. It takes path specifications as key and a list of items as value.

Action

.github/workflows/checklist.yml

on: [pull_request_target]

jobs:
  checklist_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Checklist job
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - name: Checklist
        uses: wyozi/contextual-qa-checklist-action@master
        with:
          gh-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          # See options documentation below

Options

comment-header

Overrides the default header text in the PR comment.

comment-footer

Overrides the default footer text in the PR comment.

merge-comment

Merges any new checklist items with the existing checklist comment.

include-hidden-files

Includes files and folders starting with . when matching. Defaults to false.

input-file

The path to the checklist definition file. Default to CHECKLIST.yml in the project root.

gh-token

The Github token for you project.

show-paths

Shows the matched file path in the PR comment. Defaults to true.

Result

When matching files are updated in a PR, the action will automatically post a checklist containing items under that path's key.

See #10 (comment) for an example PR checklist