Automate release and deployment

[stieg]

Need to automate this deployment to make project easier to maintain. Ideally deployment would happen if we pushed a signed tag to the main branch. However there is the issue where the updated code has to be available for GitHub actions to use (I am not aware if it being able to use a build artifact at this time... I hope there is a way it can). Ticket tracks figuring out best way to automate this release process and keep it sane.

[spyoungtech]

Could consider using the create-release action, which should do the trick.

A trigger condition like this should get what you want.

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+' # Push events to matching semver-like tags, i.e. v1.0.0, v20.15.10
    branches-ignore:
      - '!main'  # not sure if this works or is needed, but would avoid accidentally(?) creating a release from another branch

New GitHub Actions versions get released to the marketplace upon creation of a release, so, this should work for that use case.

[stieg]

@spyoungtech Thanks for pointing that out. Will look into it.

[rinchsan]

I'm using https://github.com/release-drafter/release-drafter to automatically create a draft release when PR is merged.
Last thing you have to do manually is to publish the draft release whenever you want.
Semantic version is also decided by release-drafter automatically.

You can activate release-drafter in GitHub Actions (example) .