it would be so cool to have a way for the actions ...

# github-workflows-kt

[Piotr Krzemiński]

it would be so cool to have a way for the actions owners to specify typings in action.yml... then as we encourage them to do it, we could get rid of the typings in our wrapper generator, and adding such wrapper generator would mean literally a single line of code. Any thoughts? It's not an easy task, it would mean establishing some kind of standard

[jmfayard]

You can't convince hundreds of independents action of developers
Only way this could possibly work is if GitHub itself asks for it and make it mandatory for new releases.

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I can't convince all of them, but I can say "if you want your action to be available in Kotlin DSL (and perhaps DSLs in other languages) without manual mappings, you can provide type info" 🙂 but yeah, it would be a mundane task to talk to inviduals

[jmfayard]

I would say the goal would be to ask GitHub to add an optional type: attribute.
If that succeeds, you could imagine opening issues asking to support it, with a reference to the official documentation

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I once tried to ask a question on GitHub Community forums, but it didn't get through the spam detection or something...

[Piotr Krzemiński]

maybe you could try to ask GitHub?

[Piotr Krzemiński]

another question I had to them was a mechanism to support custom YAML builders, so instead of having plain YAML files, GitHub could run a script that would generate it. Then we would simplify our library by not having to place the consistency check because GitHub would generate the YAML each time