Workflow to sync labels across multiple repos

[emmyoop]

Problem:

We often create a label in dbt-core and then want it to also appear in all other repos (dbt-snowflake, dbt-redshift, dbt-spark, dbt-bigquery, dbt-docs, and so on). Right now we manually create it everywhere.

It would be great to be able to run an action to copy a label from one repo to one-to-many others. The name, description and color should all match. If the label already exists in another repo, it would be ideal if we could overwrite it with the new color/description properties.

Solution:
A reusable workflow with a workflow_dispatch and workflow_call trigger. We could then have a workflow that copies from dbt-core to all repos listed under the Core GitHub team. Then the workflow could also be triggered manually to deliver to a subset of those repos.

[lostmygithubaccount]

I have a notebook that might help getting started: https:/lostmygithubaccount/codyspace/blob/main/notebooks/labels.ipynb

it reads all the colors from dbt-core and sets them as the same in a bunch of other repos. not sure how urgent this is, but I'd be interested to do this in Go after some recent learning in #51

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actually I was going to do something like this for personal repos too -- it's annoying to manually setup labels + colors. so wouldn't take a dependency on me doing this if it has any urgency, but otherwise I'm interested!