Create upgrade labels when necessary

[iwahbe]

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Issue details

When an upgrade is indicates, upgrade-provider needs to apply the label to trigger the upgrade on PR merge. Labels added are needs-release/patch, needs-release/minor and needs-release/major.[^1] If label does not exist on the provider and needs to be created, the upgrade fails: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-rke/actions/runs/6935929271/attempts/1.

We should solve this by:

• Standardizing the list of provider labels and making sure the release labels are included, or
• Creating the labels if they don't already exist within upgrade-provider.

Affected area/feature

[iwahbe]

The same issue just blocked https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-spotinst/actions/runs/6946256008/attempts/1.

[iwahbe]

The urgency here is very low, since this was resolved upstream by pulumi/ci-mgmt#757.

[ringods]

This issue makes upgrade-provider not usable outside of Pulumi.

https://github.com/pulumiverse/pulumi-acme/actions/runs/8778868034/job/24085996153#step:2:661

[iwahbe]

I'll take a look here. As with all of our partially internal tools, we need to create a clear distinction between what needs a pulumi specific setup and what should be usable in any repo.

[danielrbradley]

Instead of hard erroring, could we at least just warn that these labels don't exist but exit cleanly?

Ideally, attempting to create them would be nice too though.

[ringods]

@danielrbradley from your two options above, I would prefer to generate a warning. Attempting to create these labels could still error out if the user's Github token doesn't have permissions to create labels.

[t0yv0]

Would this help instead ? pulumi/provider-version-action#13

[danielrbradley]

Would this help instead ? pulumi/provider-version-action#13

Don't think so. The issue is just that if a third party repo hasn't set up the needs-release labels then the upgrade tool will always fail.

That issue is interesting though, and I'd like to see it implemented 👍