IssueOps: Automate CI/CD (and more!) with GitHub Issues and Actions

IssueOps is a methodology that transforms GitHub Issues into a hub for automating various software development tasks, such as managing issues, handling approvals, and triggering CI/CD workflows, directly from the repository. By utilizing GitHub Issues, Actions, and pull requests as an interface, IssueOps allows developers and teams to streamline operations without the need to switch between tools, using comments, labels, and state changes to initiate actions. It offers a collection of tools, workflows, and concepts similar to other *Ops paradigms like ChatOps and ClickOps, providing a customizable and transparent system where every action is logged and auditable. The methodology emphasizes event-driven automation, allowing teams to tailor workflows to their specific needs, and uses concepts from state-machine terminology to design workflows that process requests through defined states and transitions. IssueOps can be applied to a variety of tasks, from running complex CI/CD pipelines to managing team memberships, bringing efficiency and transparency to GitHub-based workflows.