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rootiest cff4f7b414 feat(ci): sync the label taxonomy to the GitHub mirror automatically
Labels don't travel with a mirror push -- mirroring copies files, not
repository settings -- but they matter on the GitHub side anyway, because
GitHub reads the same .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ files and silently drops a
labels: entry naming a label it doesn't have. Until now the only thing
keeping the two sets aligned was remembering to do it by hand, which is
exactly the kind of thing that gets forgotten and then fails invisibly.

Add scripts/sync-labels.py and a workflow that runs it daily, on any change
to the script itself, and on manual dispatch. Gitea stays the source of
truth: labels are managed there and GitHub is made to match.

- **Creates and updates** anything missing or drifted. Colors and
  descriptions are normalized before comparison -- Gitea returns colors
  bare, GitHub sometimes with a leading '#', and a description may be null
  on one side and "" on the other -- so a steady state is a true no-op
  rather than a rewrite of all 33 labels every run.
- **Deletes only unused extras.** An extra label on the mirror is removed
  only when no issue or PR there carries it; one in use is reported with
  its count and left alone. An unattended scheduled job must not be able to
  strip a label off somebody's issue.
- **Refuses to run on an empty source**, since treating that as truth would
  propose deleting every label on the mirror.
- **--dry-run** prints the plan and changes nothing; **--self-test** checks
  the diff logic offline against fixtures, and gates the sync step in CI so
  a broken diff can't mutate anything.

Stdlib only, so the CI step installs nothing beyond python3. The job is
gated with the same github.server_url check ci.yml uses -- without it the
mirror would queue this forever against a runner that only exists on Gitea.

Labels are matched by name, so a rename reads as delete-plus-create; the
new name is created and the old is pruned only if unused. The two forges
share no stable label ID, so a rename can't be tracked across them.
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name: Sync labels to mirror
# Labels do not travel with a mirror push -- mirroring copies files, not
# repository settings -- but they matter on the GitHub side anyway, because
# GitHub reads the same .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ files and silently drops a
# labels: entry naming a label it does not have. Gitea is the source of
# truth; this makes the mirror match.
on:
schedule:
# 06:00 UTC daily. Label churn is rare, so a slower cadence than this
# would leave the mirror wrong for most of a working day after an edit.
- cron: "0 6 * * *"
push:
branches:
- main
paths:
# Exercise the sync as soon as its own logic changes, rather than
# waiting for the next scheduled run to find out it is broken.
- "scripts/sync-labels.py"
- ".github/workflows/sync-labels.yml"
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
dry_run:
description: "Report the plan without changing anything"
required: false
default: false
type: boolean
jobs:
sync-labels:
# This file is mirrored to GitHub as-is. The runner label below only
# exists on the Gitea instance, so on GitHub the job would sit queued
# forever against a runner that will never pick it up -- the same
# problem the github-mirror stand-in in ci.yml exists to solve. A
# skipped job costs nothing and produces no stuck status.
if: github.server_url != 'https://github.com'
runs-on: racknerd-mini
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GITEA_TOKEN }}
- name: Install Python
run: |
sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=3 update -qq
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install \
--no-install-recommends -y python3
# Cheap, offline, and no token needed. Catches a broken diff before
# anything is allowed to mutate labels on the mirror.
- name: Check the diff logic
run: python3 scripts/sync-labels.py --self-test
- name: Sync labels
env:
GH_MIRROR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_MIRROR_TOKEN }}
run: |
if [ -z "$GH_MIRROR_TOKEN" ]; then
echo "::error::GH_MIRROR_TOKEN is not set in this repository's Actions secrets."
echo "Create a fine-grained GitHub token scoped to rootiest/fish-config with"
echo "Issues: read and write, plus Pull requests: read, and add it as"
echo "GH_MIRROR_TOKEN under Settings -> Actions -> Secrets."
exit 1
fi
if [ "${{ inputs.dry_run }}" = "true" ]; then
python3 scripts/sync-labels.py --dry-run
else
python3 scripts/sync-labels.py
fi