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Automation through workflows

Automation through workflows

- [Instructor] GitHub includes an important and useful tool to lessen the burden of maintenance and management within projects. It's called Workflows. Workflows are built-in actions that assist in automatically updating the status of project items so less time is poured into the upkeep of a project and more into the productivity within it. Automation is our best friend. Rather than stressing over updating each individual issue within our project, we can rely on these customizable workflows to do it for ourselves. Let's look into the built-in workflows that GitHub provides for our projects by selecting the three doted option in the upper right-hand corner and selecting Workflows. Here we can see the overview of the default workflows that are provided, as well the configurations for each workflow. An example of a workflow that we'll be enabling for this project will be when an item is closed. The built-in workflow…

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