Greet to the new PR and issue creator in Github Action - #1

Github action greeting

Github action is the great tool to automate the manual stuff for your project.

What

The below action will greet to the contributor who will create first Pull Request and also the first issue.

How?

Create a folder .github/workflows in the root folder

create a new workflow called greeting.yml inside the .github/workflows/ directory.

Copy the below code and paste in the greeting.yml

name: Greetings

on: [pull_request_target, issues]

jobs:
  greetings:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      issue: write
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/first-interaction@v1
        with:
          repo-token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
          issue-message: "We appreciate you pointing us to the problem, and as soon as time allows, we will look into it. Thank you!"
          pr-message: "We appreciate you creating your first pull request and look forward to reviewing your future contributions."

Push the file in the main branch and try to create a first issue and first Pull request.

This will send a greeting message in the comment of the PR and issue.

Happy Automation!