Project Management Automation using GitHub Actions

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Feature description

Required Reading: Introduction to GitHub Actions

Inspiration:

• Gutenberg GitHub Actions
• Awesome Actions
• 10up GitHub Actions for WordPress

Potential use cases:

Project Management

• Automatically assign the correct milestone to newly opened pull requests
• If a contributor opens a PR addressing a specific issue, assign that issue to the contributor
• On an issue, maintain a list of PRs addressing that issue
• Mark old PRs / issues as stale and potentially close them
• Auto-label PRs based on matched file patterns (e.g. whether a PR is for AMP Stories or not)

Build Tooling

• Check bundle size
• Run linter
• Automatically fix code formatting
• Run unit tests
• Run e2e tests
• Create fresh builds for each PR
• Automatically create pre-releases on GitHub
  Including updated changelog
• Deploy storybook (#3249) to GitHub pages
• Deploy plugin to QA environment
• Deploy plugin to WordPress.org

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Acceptance criteria

Implementation brief

QA testing instructions

Demo

Changelog entry

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There have been some big changes to GitHub actions lately with new syntax and support for JavaScript. The whole thing seems pretty slick.

Gutenberg has already switched over to using a separate package for GitHub actions: WordPress/gutenberg#17080

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We'd need to sign up for the beta here: https://github.com/features/actions/signup/?account=ampproject