Best practices for updating GitHub Apps

[wassson]

I am developing a GitHub App and I'm wondering if there are best practices related to updating a GH App's functionality in repos that already have the app installed.

Let's say I develop a new feature that requires a new, custom label. A solution that comes to mind is to have the users reinstall the GH App on their repo and when the installation_repositories.added event triggers I can create that label. For obvious reasons this is cumbersome and is the wrong approach, but I'm not finding any good answers to this question in my research. I guess I could also write a script that grabs all installations and makes a request to create the label for each repo, but that feels invasive.

How are people handling this kind of change to their apps?

[queenofcorgis]

Welcome to the GitHub Community, @austinwasson , we're happy you're here! You are more likely to get a useful response if you are posting your question in the applicable category. I've gone ahead and moved it for you. Good luck!

[wassson]

Thank you!