FR: pull from external config

[elijaholmos]

As a developer, I would like to have a single, centralized configuration for all projects in my GH org that are using release-please as a GitHub action. There should also be an option to extend this configuration on a per-repo basis, in case certain adjustments need to be made.

Renovate has a good example of how this is implemented in its service. Ideally, I could use an extends field in my release-please-config.json:

{
  "extends": "MyOrgName/.github",
  "packages": { ".": {} },
  "release-type": "node"
}

this would merge the individual repo's configuration with the configuration found in my organization's .github repo, overwriting the parent's configuration with the child's values.

[chingor13]

This sounds like a reasonable feature, but not something we have time to prioritize. Note that there are considerations around permissions which could make this more complex.

[antongolub]

@chingor13,

I'd like to try. Could you help me with that?