Bulk import issues into projects beta

[matthewmayer]

Can you bulk import all open issues from an existing repo into a Projects Beta board? Adding then one by one seems a bit painful

[dmckinstry]

@matthewmayer - Not at this point. Having used it internally for some time, I agree that manually adding can be tedious. @mariorod mentioned on stage a vision that includes Repo-scoped projects which may help. My team actually has a GitHub Actions workflow that listens for new issues and based on the content will conditionally add them to a project board. It should be possible to script a bulk import without too much work leveraging GitHub GraphQL: https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/mutations#addprojectnextitem

[matthewmayer]

Alternatively adding support to the Github CLI would be nice, then i could just do a gh issue list command to get the issues i want and then gh issue edit ISSUE --add-project PROJECTNAME for each one. cli/cli#4547

Have never used GraphQL so its a bit of a learning curve.

[matthewmayer]

I understand the logic "well maybe you don't want all these issues cluttering up the board" but i precisely want to use the boards for triage for deciding which of many stale issues should be worked on :)

[cabbiepete]

@dmckinstry is that github action generally available I think that would be enough for us. Add to the board when a label is added is what I am thinking.

[nottrobin]

I'd also be very interested in a GitHub action, but I'll also happily write on myself.