Summary

Successfully implemented automated label management for all WP-CLI repositories, fulfilling issue #54.

✅ Completed Tasks

• Create reusable workflow for managing standard labels (reusable-manage-labels.yml)
• Create calling workflow for managing labels (manage-labels.yml)
• Update sync-workflows.yml to distribute the calling workflow to all repositories
• Test the workflow with actionlint (all workflows pass)
• Validate workflow logic manually (tested with composer commands and JS)
• Run security scan (CodeQL - no alerts)
• Fix security issues (added explicit permissions)
• Final verification and testing
• Update command label color per code review feedback
• Remove unused variable per code review feedback

📋 What This Implements

Standard Labels (created in every repository):

• good-first-issue - Good for newcomers
• help-wanted - Extra attention is needed
• scope:documentation - Related to documentation
• scope:testing - Related to testing

Command-Specific Labels (for repositories with WP-CLI commands):

• Extracted from composer.json via composer config extra.commands
• Format: command:<command-name> (spaces replaced with dashes)
• Color: light blue (#C5DEF5)
• Example: user application-password record-usage → command:user-application-password-record-usage

🔧 How It Works

1. Reusable workflow (reusable-manage-labels.yml):

   • Checks out repository code
   • Extracts commands from composer.json (if exists)
   • Creates/updates labels via GitHub API
   • Handles repositories without composer.json gracefully

2. Calling workflow (manage-labels.yml):

   • Triggers on workflow_dispatch or composer.json changes
   • Synced to all 39 WP-CLI repositories via sync-workflows.yml

3. Deployment:

   • Once merged, syncs to all repositories within ~10 minutes
   • Can be manually triggered anytime
   • Auto-runs when composer.json is updated

✅ Testing & Validation

• Manual testing with various composer.json scenarios
• actionlint: All workflows pass
• CodeQL security scan: No alerts
• Follows wp-cli/.github patterns (split reusable + calling workflow)
• Edge cases handled (no composer.json, empty commands array)

📝 Notes

The workflow is idempotent and safe to run multiple times. It will update existing labels or create new ones as needed.

• Fixes Automatically apply standard labels to all repositories #54

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