chore: add GitHub welcome workflow for new contributors by aniketpati1121 · Pull Request #12527 · kubeflow/pipelines

aniketpati1121 · 2025-12-05T07:37:29Z

What this PR does

This PR adds a GitHub Actions–based welcome workflow to the Kubeflow Pipelines repository.

The workflow automatically welcomes first-time contributors when they open an issue or a pull request and provides helpful guidance and links to get started.

Why this is needed

Improves onboarding experience for new contributors
Encourages participation and smooth contribution workflow
Provides links to the Contributing Guide and community Slack channels

Workflow details

Trigger: First-time pull_request and issue events
Messages are tailored for PRs and issues separately
Uses the actions/first-interaction GitHub Action

Additional notes

This workflow is inspired by the existing workflow in kubeflow/sdk
Once merged, new contributors will see a friendly welcome message automatically.

fixes #12526

google-oss-prow · 2025-12-05T07:37:40Z

Hi @aniketpati1121. Thanks for your PR.

I'm waiting for a kubeflow member to verify that this patch is reasonable to test. If it is, they should reply with /ok-to-test on its own line. Until that is done, I will not automatically test new commits in this PR, but the usual testing commands by org members will still work. Regular contributors should join the org to skip this step.

Once the patch is verified, the new status will be reflected by the ok-to-test label.

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kramaranya

Thank you @aniketpati1121!
I think we should standardize this across all Kubeflow projects
/assign @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads

kramaranya · 2025-12-05T20:17:07Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            Thanks for opening your first issue! We're happy to have you as part of our community 🚀
+
+            **Next steps:**
+            - Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/pipelines-maintainers


Suggested change

- Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/pipelines-maintainers

- Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads

kramaranya · 2025-12-05T20:19:00Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            Thanks for opening your first PR! We're excited to have you onboard 🚀
+
+            **Next steps:**
+            - Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/pipelines-maintainers


Suggested change

- Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/pipelines-maintainers

- Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads

kramaranya · 2025-12-05T20:21:22Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            **Next steps:**
+            - Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/pipelines-maintainers
+            - Check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for repo-specific instructions
+            - Join the community Slack channels: [#kubeflow-platform](https://slack.kubeflow.org/)  


Suggested change

- Join the community Slack channels: [#kubeflow-platform](https://slack.kubeflow.org/)

- Join our [#kubeflow-pipelines](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/community/#kubeflow-slack-channels) Slack channel.

kramaranya · 2025-12-05T20:22:21Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+
+            Thanks for opening your first issue! We're happy to have you as part of our community 🚀
+
+            **Next steps:**


Could you also mention Pipelines WG meetings?

aniketpati1121 · 2025-12-06T03:39:53Z

Thank you @aniketpati1121! I think we should standardize this across all Kubeflow projects /assign @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads

Thanks for the suggestion!
I agree that standardizing this across all Kubeflow projects will really help contributors.

kramaranya · 2025-12-06T23:09:01Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            - Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads
+            - Check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+            - Join our [#kubeflow-pipelines](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/community/#kubeflow-slack-channels) Slack channel
+            - Attend the **Kubeflow Pipelines WG meetings** (details on the Kubeflow community calendar)


Suggested change

- Attend the **Kubeflow Pipelines WG meetings** (details on the Kubeflow community calendar)

- Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings

kramaranya · 2025-12-06T23:10:56Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            - Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads
+            - If you haven't already, please check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+            - Join our [#kubeflow-pipelines](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/community/#kubeflow-slack-channels) Slack channel
+            - Attend the **Kubeflow Pipelines WG meetings** to stay connected with maintainers


Suggested change

- Attend the **Kubeflow Pipelines WG meetings** to stay connected with maintainers

- Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings

kramaranya · 2025-12-06T23:11:58Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+
+            **Next steps:**
+            - Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads
+            - If you haven't already, please check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)


Shall we also link Kubeflow contributing guide? We do that in Kubeflow SDK

Good idea, thanks!

kramaranya · 2025-12-07T11:35:00Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+
+            **Next steps:**
+            - Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads
+            - If you haven't already, please check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)


I'd merge that in one point

Suggested change

- If you haven't already, please check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

- If you haven't already, please check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for repo-specific guidelines and the [Kubeflow Contributor Guide](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/contributing/) for general community standards

kramaranya · 2025-12-07T11:35:21Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            - Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings
+            - Check out the [Kubeflow Contributing Guide](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/contributing/)


Suggested change

- Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings

- Check out the [Kubeflow Contributing Guide](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/contributing/)

- Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings

kramaranya · 2025-12-07T11:38:48Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            - Check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+            - Join our [#kubeflow-pipelines](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/community/#kubeflow-slack-channels) Slack channel
+            - Attend the **Kubeflow Pipelines WG meetings** (details on the Kubeflow community calendar)


Please update it accordingly to align with the items in pr_message

Please update it accordingly to align with the items in pr_message

Hi @kramaranya,
I’ve updated the workflow with your suggestions. Please check. Thanks!

kramaranya · 2025-12-07T12:07:11Z

Thanks a lot, @aniketpati1121!
/lgtm

hbelmiro

@nsingla can you please also take a look so we can be sure regarding security?

/hold

hbelmiro · 2025-12-08T13:06:17Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            Thanks for opening your first issue! We're happy to have you as part of our community 🚀
+
+            **Next steps:**
+            - Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads


Maintainers are already overwhelmed with notifications. Those who want to be notified about new issues can just watch the repo.

Suggested change

- Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads

- Our team will review your issue soon!

hbelmiro · 2025-12-08T13:07:25Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            - Join our [#kubeflow-pipelines](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/community/#kubeflow-slack-channels) Slack channel
+            - Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings
+
+            Feel free to ask questions in the comments. Thanks again for contributing! 🙏


Let's avoid redundancy.

Suggested change

Feel free to ask questions in the comments. Thanks again for contributing! 🙏

Feel free to ask questions in the comments.

hbelmiro · 2025-12-08T13:08:51Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            Thanks for opening your first PR! We're excited to have you onboard 🚀
+
+            **Next steps:**
+            - Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads


We rely on Prow for notifying proper reviewers and not overwhelm maintainers.

Suggested change

- Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads

- Our team will review your PR soon!

hbelmiro · 2025-12-08T13:09:23Z

.github/workflows/welcome-new-contributors.yaml

+            - Join our [#kubeflow-pipelines](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/community/#kubeflow-slack-channels) Slack channel
+            - Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings
+
+            Feel free to ask questions in the comments. Thanks again for contributing! 🙏


Suggested change

Feel free to ask questions in the comments. Thanks again for contributing! 🙏

Feel free to ask questions in the comments.

aniketpati1121 · 2025-12-09T11:13:40Z

Hi @hbelmiro, could you please take a quick look at this PR for review? Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Aniket Patil <aniketpatil2027@gmail.com>

droctothorpe · 2025-12-24T01:53:29Z

This is great, @aniketpati1121. Thanks for taking the initiative! Will approve /merge as soon as @hbelmiro lgtms.

hbelmiro

/lgtm
/approve
/ok-to-test
/unhold

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	- Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/pipelines-maintainers
	- Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads

	- Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/pipelines-maintainers
	- Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads

	- Join the community Slack channels: [#kubeflow-platform](https://slack.kubeflow.org/)
	- Join our [#kubeflow-pipelines](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/community/#kubeflow-slack-channels) Slack channel.


		Thanks for opening your first issue! We're happy to have you as part of our community 🚀

		Next steps:

	- Attend the Kubeflow Pipelines WG meetings (details on the Kubeflow community calendar)
	- Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings

	- If you haven't already, please check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
	- If you haven't already, please check out the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for repo-specific guidelines and the [Kubeflow Contributor Guide](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/contributing/) for general community standards

		- Attend the [Kubeflow Pipelines WG](http://bit.ly/kfp-meeting-notes) meetings
		- Check out the [Kubeflow Contributing Guide](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/contributing/)

	- Our team will review your issue soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads
	- Our team will review your issue soon!

	Feel free to ask questions in the comments. Thanks again for contributing! 🙏
	Feel free to ask questions in the comments.

	- Our team will review your PR soon! cc @kubeflow/wg-pipeline-leads
	- Our team will review your PR soon!

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