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🔨 New gh action to assigns the latest open milestone to a newly opened pull request #1

🔨 New gh action to assigns the latest open milestone to a newly opened pull request

🔨 New gh action to assigns the latest open milestone to a newly opened pull request #1

name: Assign latest milestone to new PRs
# This workflow assigns the latest open milestone to a newly opened pull request.
on:
pull_request:
types: [opened]
jobs:
assign-latest-milestone:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
pull-requests: write
steps:
- name: Assign latest milestone to PR
uses: actions/github-script@v7
with:
script: |
const { owner, repo } = context.repo;
const milestones = await github.rest.issues.listMilestones({
owner,
repo,
state: 'open',
sort: 'due_on', // or 'number' if you prefer
direction: 'asc'
});
if (milestones.data.length === 0) {
console.log('No open milestones found.');
return;
}
const latestMilestone = milestones.data[0]; // earliest due date
await github.rest.pulls.update({
owner,
repo,
pull_number: context.payload.pull_request.number,
milestone: latestMilestone.number
});