Example of a BCO as a GitHub action

[HadleyKing]

From: De Almeida, Jonas (NIH/NCI) [E]

Hi Charles,

As promised Thursday, the note on running workflows in github:

40M developers on github woke up last week with a new tab, “actions”, and a workflow engine integrated in their developer environment – which already includes hosting web applications and authentication services, all of this with versioning and a marketplace where workflows can be published and found. So the conversation Thursday was about creating a BCO example in this environment to establish its FAIR use. I suspect most developers (definitely most students) have already migrated to serverless execution environments and having a one-click place where to validate, and disseminate, a workflow manifest/language, really is the place to be if you want to reach them. So the suggestion is to have a simple and compelling example of a BCO as a github action others can fork and investigate.

References:

1. Github documentation
2. Keynote at github universe explaining workflow actions: Here’s a link to a video
   I left the same comment in gitter [this one 😄] in case you want to discuss it further (not a fan of email conversations here …)