Fix the Add-Missing-Labels-to-Issues job error

[jdingeman]

Overview

Dev leads have noticed that the Add-Missing-Labels-to-Issues job is failing whenever we submit a new issue onto the project board. We need to correct the job so that it works correctly and adds missing labels to issues that are submitted for approval.

Action Items

• See associated issue ER: Add-Missing-Labels-to-Issues job fails when opening an issue #4129 for more information
• Familiarize yourself with GitHub Actions
• Understand the HfLA GitHub Actions by reviewing the wiki and the different GHAs we use
  • If you have not already done so, create a copy of the Project Board into your own repo (Tip 6: Creating your own Project Board)
  • Be sure to read up on using Personal Access Tokens to test the project board in your own repo (Tip 7: Using Personal Access Tokens to test in your own Project Board)
• See issue-trigger.yml and investigate what the issue may be
  • Determine if there are any deprecated functions that may be causing the issue
  • For testing purposes, create and edit tokens as necessary for your repo
• Make corrections to workflow and test in your local repo to ensure that it works
• Provide a demo to the merge team for review

Resources/Instructions

• Example of failed job
• Never done GitHub actions? Start here!
• GitHub Complex Workflows doc
• GitHub Actions Workflow Directory
• Events that trigger workflows
• Workflow syntax for GitHub Actions
• actions/github-script
• GitHub RESTAPI
• HfLA GitHub Actions Guide and Tips

[t-will-gillis]

Hello @EdASalazar
In case you did not see this, we implemented a new dependabot a couple of weeks ago that searches through our codebase looking for action modules that have older version numbers. The bot is recommending that we update various versions listed in the issue-trigger.yml file:

• Bump actions/github-script from 4 to 6 #4734: four locations actions/github-script@v4 --> actions/github-script@v6
• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 #4735: two locations actions/checkout@v2 --> actions/checkout@v3
• Bump tspascoal/get-user-teams-membership from 1 to 2 #4737: one location tspascoal/get-user-teams-membership@v1 --> tspascoal/get-user-teams-membership@v2

It will be a good idea to make these version changes to your test files right away, since a. we will need to update these versions very soon and b. the new versions (esp get-user-teams-membership) might eliminate some of the errors that are occurring.

Let us know if you would like to talk about this more and/or have blockers. Thanks!

[t-will-gillis]

It will be a good idea to make these version changes to your test files right away, since a. we will need to update these versions very soon and b. the new versions (esp get-user-teams-membership) might eliminate some of the errors that are occurring.

As I am testing other GHAs for the dependabot-suggested version update changes: I believe that the updates suggested in issue 4734 might/will break this GHA and should not be done.

[EdASalazar]

Hi @EdASalazar - you might check the Settings General in your repo and scroll down to Features and check if the Issues box is checked:

That was it. Thank you so much! I was losing my mind.

[t-will-gillis]

It appears that this issue has been resolved by regenerating the secrets.TEAMS tokens. Issue #4822 will check the next steps needed for reviewing the "Add-Missing-Labels-to-Issues" job.