Automatically open a pull request for repositories that have no CONTRIBUTING.md file for a targeted set of repositories.

This code is for a GitHub Action that opens pull requests in the repositories that have a specified repository topic and also don't have a CONTRIBUTING.md file.

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It is desirable, for example, for all Open Source and InnerSource projects to have a CONTRIBUTING.md file that specifies for new contributors what the processes and procedures are for making a new contribution. This has been done in some large GitHub customers organizations.

• It pulls a list of labelled repositories from a repos.json which can be generated by the InnerSource-Crawler GitHub Action.
• It opens a pull request in each of those repositories which adds the CONTRIBUTING.md file with some template contents.

1. Create a repository to host this GitHub Action or select an existing repository.
2. Create the env values from the sample workflow below (GH_TOKEN, GH_ACTOR, PR_TITLE, PR_BODY, and ORGANIZATION) with your information as repository secrets. More info on creating secrets can be found here. Note: Your GitHub token will need to have read/write access to all the repositories in the repos.json file.
3. Copy the below example workflow to your repository and put it in the .github/workflows/ directory with the file extension .yml (ie. .github/workflows/auto-contrib-file.yml)

Below are the allowed configuration options: