github-community-projects / github-community-projects/safe-settings
Provide an "Include" option to help dry up configs
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Description
## Prerequisites:
* Is the functionality available in the GitHub UI?
n/a
* Is the functionality available through the GitHub API?
n/a
## New Feature
This was brought up in [discussion in a previous issue](https://github.com/github/safe-settings/issues/277), but that ended up taking a different direction.
As described there, sometimes there are commonalities between tech stacks across suborg definitions, which can result in a lot of duplication and thus drift. In that issue it was noted that being able to have multiple suborgs apply configurations has innate challenges because of how that data is processed.
It would be helpful to be able to have standardized configurations in separate files that could be imported, akin to say "frontend_labels.yml", "backend_rulesets.yml", "compliance_rulesets.yml", "jira_autolinks.yml", etc
Then, within suborgs, you could have something like:
```yaml
suborgproperties:
- Squad: BlueSquad
autolinks:
- '!include safe-settings/snippets/jira_autolinks.yml'
labels:
- '!include safe-settings/snippets/frontend_labels.yml'
- name: security
color: CC0000
rulesets:
- '!include safe-settings/snippets/compliance_rulesets.yml'
- '!include safe-settings/snippets/bluesquad_rulesets.yml'
```
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