Github Branch Source with large number of repositories

[Cuong Tran]

How do folks manage a large number of repositories in a single organization when you use the Github Branch Source to automatically create jobs?

[Joseph P]

Take a look at https://ci.jenkins.io they categorize repos into meaningful groups for instance Plugins folder contains all repos with the name *-plugin in the repo name.

[Cuong Tran]

Joseph,

Thanks for pointing me to that instance.  Without admin access, I can only guess that these grouping are manually defined.  I'm looking for a more dynamic way to group them (for example, using github topic) without relying on the naming pattern alone.

[Joseph P]

You might be able to write an SCM trait extension plugin to understand repository topics filtering, however, I think you would need to send a Pull Request to the Github Branch Source plugin to have the topics data available from the API wrapper :)

GitHub API wrapper used by GitHub Branch Source plugin https://github.com/kohsuke/github-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/GHRepository.java

https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-organization-repositories the topics is definitely on the repo :)