New action: tickets created in this repo shoud trigger an email to go-friends

[pgaudet]

Hello,
Is it possible to set up an action that would send an email to the go-friends email list whenever we open a ticket in the current repo?

Thanks, Pascale

@cmungall @kltm

[kltm]

Put into "Misc"

[kltm]

@pgaudet I don't think there would be any issue. I would note that you probably want to have announcements tied to a tag (e.g. announce) to prev things like #567

[kltm]

Talking to @pgaudet , let's go ahead with this formulation. "Medium"-ish priority.

[kltm]

Likely would be using https://github.com/marketplace/actions/send-email

[kltm]

I'm beginning to think this may actually be a little tricky. Reading through some stuff, I'm beginning to get "ontology updates" vibes, which we ended up doing outside of GHA (tagging @dustine32 in case he happens to know if things are easier now). I'm going to ask around on the BBOP side of things.

[kltm]

@pgaudet There is likely no "easy" way forward here as stated. If we did move forward (setup an appropriate email proxy to service this), we'd also want to revisit other projects like the ontology/annotation update emails that go out every day.
Now, the alternate here would be to work around this the exact same way we worked around the ontology update emails, which would be to have polling and send all "new" announcements out every 24hrs (maybe making it part of the go ontology updates announcement scripts).