Project management: automate adding package-related labels to PRs by priethor · Pull Request #52729 · WordPress/gutenberg

priethor · 2023-07-18T12:31:49Z

What?

This PR automates adding package-related labels to PRs when they affect one or more npm packages. Related discussions in #52583 and #52727 (comment)

Why?

Labeling in detail is a burden, and often PRs get merged without many labels. Some labels can be automated, like package labels and many feature-related ones.

How?

By adding a labeler GitHub action that checks the path of the files affected by the PRs.

Testing Instructions

I've created a PoC in a test repository, and it seems to work fine!

github-actions · 2023-07-18T13:04:22Z

Flaky tests detected in dc4d694.
Some tests passed with failed attempts. The failures may not be related to this commit but are still reported for visibility. See the documentation for more information.

🔍 Workflow run URL: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/actions/runs/18982729378
📝 Reported issues:

[Flaky Test] ensures List View global shortcut works properly #51533 in /test/e2e/specs/editor/various/list-view.spec.js

jordesign

It's beyond my skillset to comment on the code itself - but in terms of the labels being added it looks good to me

priethor · 2023-07-19T11:26:14Z

Thanks for taking a look, @jordesign . There are some label mismatches between the current labels and packages, as I noted in the spreadsheet from #52583. Since package labels should be a direct 1:1 mapping, I will move forward to updating them if you don't mind.

apeatling

This looks great, and should help the problem quite a bit. Looks thorough to me but I will hold off on approval until you have the label mismatches sorted.

afercia · 2023-09-04T11:21:04Z

Slightly unrelated and maybe it would have been better addressed in the contrext of #52583

I just noticed that there's no label for the existing package @wordpress/customize-widgets.
I'm not sure what the state of this package is, but it seems to me the lack of a label is inconsistent with the similar package @wordpress/edit-widgets which does have its own label: [Package] Edit Widgets.

Actual use case: I'd need the missing label to be added to #54148

github-actions · 2025-10-31T15:09:50Z

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desrosj · 2025-11-03T19:04:09Z

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Is there any way to automate this list? Looking quickly, it seems that the part of the label after [Package] can just be coerced into lowercase and spaces replaced with hyphens to construct the directory path. For example, [Package] API Fetch -> packages/api-fetc/**. The only one where this is not the case is the [Package] E2E Tests.

We just removed a manually-curated list in #72672, so want to make sure that adding a new file for something similar is the desired solution.

I don't know if this is possible, but what if there was a step prior to this one that queried for all of the active [Package] labels for the repository and then created this file or a list on the fly each time?

Yeah, I think it can be done, there are only a few exceptions like e2e and some typos that can be fixed at the label level.

I'd be happy to attempt that in a follow-up, to get this up and running first and see how it works before investing too much time in that. At the end of the day, label mismatches won't harm PRs as opposed to the Type-label enforcer, which would leave annoying messages and block merging.

Actually:

I've fixed the two labels that had a typo/mismatch

For the exceptions, we can use the label description as a backup. They contain the patch of the package they should be "assigned" to, so we can use label descriptions to do the match in the workflow.

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priethor added the [Type] Project Management Meta-issues related to project management of Gutenberg label Jul 18, 2023

priethor requested review from annezazu, bph, jordesign, mrfoxtalbot, ndiego, ockham and youknowriad July 18, 2023 12:31

priethor self-assigned this Jul 18, 2023

priethor commented Jul 18, 2023

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priethor requested a review from apeatling July 19, 2023 16:09

apeatling reviewed Jul 19, 2023

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Add labeler GitHub action with package labeling rules

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priethor force-pushed the automation/auto-label-prs branch from 9973baa to 2236c90 Compare October 31, 2025 15:09

priethor requested a review from desrosj as a code owner October 31, 2025 15:09

priethor added 2 commits October 31, 2025 16:39

Upgrade to v6, update new packages

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Fix event name

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priethor added GitHub Actions Pull requests that update GitHub Actions code [Type] Project Management Meta-issues related to project management of Gutenberg and removed [Type] Project Management Meta-issues related to project management of Gutenberg labels Nov 3, 2025

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priethor added 4 commits November 4, 2025 14:22

Pin action version to commit hash and ubuntu version

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Remove write permissions for issues

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Reduce triggers

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Remove soon-to-be-deprecated packages

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priethor added 3 commits November 4, 2025 14:26

Remove workflow_dispatch

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Disable permissions at root level

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Fix plural labels

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priethor merged commit 229fe11 into trunk Dec 17, 2025
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priethor deleted the automation/auto-label-prs branch December 17, 2025 19:38

github-actions Bot added this to the Gutenberg 22.4 milestone Dec 17, 2025

aduth mentioned this pull request Mar 6, 2026

Project Management: Add validation for missing GitHub labels configuration #76263

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