Probot

Collection of common configurations for project management and CI/CD.
Reuse this shared set of Probot configurations across your GitHub projects. For more information, see the Probot best-practices documentation.

Consumers reference the shared configurations via the _extends: key:

_extends: gh-plumbing:.github/commons-<name>.yml

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Shared apps

probot	git	description
boring-cyborg	kaxil/boring-cyborg	Automates pull-request labelling and other repository housekeeping tasks.
release-drafter	release-drafter/release-drafter	Creates a human-readable release changelog (deprecated as a Probot app—prefer the workflow implementation).
renovate		Keeps dependencies in sync with Renovate, an automated dependency-update bot.
settings	probot/settings	Configure GitHub Projects by Source.

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Documented in detail

• Settings

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  Repository metadata, branch protection, labels—synced from commons-settings.yml.

  Settings

• Labelling

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  Automatically labels PRs and issues via boring-cyborg using path and title rules.

  Labelling

Release drafter

The Workflows → Release page documents the release-drafter Probot configuration next to its workflow.