Question

Your team tracks feature work in a GitHub Projects (Projects v2) board that pulls in issues and pull requests from three repositories. The team wants the board's 'Status' field to automatically move an item to 'Done' when its linked pull request is merged, and to 'In Progress' when a draft PR is marked ready for review — without any manual field edits and without maintaining custom code. What should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Enable the project's built-in workflows (automations) for 'Item closed' and 'Pull request merged' to set the Status field values

Answer

Create a GitHub Actions workflow in each repository that calls the GraphQL API to update the project item's Status field on PR events

Answer

Add branch protection rules requiring linked issues, which automatically synchronize the project Status field on merge

Answer

Configure a repository webhook that posts to an Azure Function to patch the project item field via REST