USWDS-Team: Replace "add issues to project" workflow with project board setting

[mahoneycm]

Description

GitHub introduced new guidance on automatically adding issues to project boards.

We should explore this option and see if it is a better option than our current workflow.

One possible enhancement is adding automatically created issues such as POAM. Currently, these issues cannot be added via workflow because they are using secret tokens. ¹

When you use the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN to perform tasks, events triggered by the GITHUB_TOKEN, with the exception of workflow_dispatch and repository_dispatch, will not create a new workflow run. ¹

Footnotes

1. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#using-the-github_token-in-a-workflow ↩ ↩²

[amyleadem]

Update

I was able to successfully set up a workflow to automatically add open issues and PRs from the uswds-team repo to the project board.

Check out the related add-to-project workflow to see the criteria.

I also created this test issue to confirm that new issues do get added to the project board.

@mahoneycm, we should see if this resolves the conflict you were experiencing with the POAM issue creation automation.

Next steps

• Consider using this workflow method in other USWDS repos. In other repos, we have used a YML-based workflow (See USWDS' workflow). However, this requires technical knowledge and a push to the project code. If we can move to a project-based workflow, it would give us better flexibility for managing the types of items that get added to the project board. Note: there are a limited number of auto-add workflows available depending on plan type.
• Add the "Status: triage" label to these issues.

cc: @jdotyoon

[amyleadem]

Closing this issue as complete