Marketplace publishing action for JB

Author: Calvin A. Allen

_data/opensource.yml

@@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ details:
       cover_image: "GHA-VSVsixVersioner.png"
       categories: ["github action"]
       opened_date: "2023-04-01"
-    - name: "Visual Studio VSIX Signer"
-      url: "https://github.com/CodingWithCalvin/GHA-VSVsixSigner"
-      description: "Github Action to sign your Visual Studio extensions before you publish to the marketplace!"
-      cover_image: "VSVSIXSigner.png"
+    - name: "JetBrains Marketplace Publisher"
+      url: "https://github.com/CodingWithCalvin/GHA-JBMarketplacePublisher"
+      description: "Github Action to publish your JetBrains extension/plugin to the marketplace!"
+      cover_image: "GHA-JBMarketplacePublisher.png"
       categories: ["github action"]
-      opened_date: "2023-04-02"
+      opened_date: "2024-09-24"
     - name: "Super Clean"
       url: "https://github.com/CodingWithCalvin/vs4mac-SuperClean"
       description: "A Visual Studio for Mac extension that adds a new open, 'Super Clean Solution', to the Build menu to the Solution node, that allows you to recursively delete (i.e., clean, but super) all of projects in the solution."

_posts/2024/2024-09-24-introducing-the-jetbrains-marketplace-publisher-github-action/2024-09-24-introducing-the-jetbrains-marketplace-publisher-github-action.md

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+---
+title: 'Introducing the "JetBrains Marketplace Publisher" GitHub Action'
+date: "2024-09-24T12:00:00-04:00"
+categories: [jetbrains, extensibility, devops]
+description: "You've got your own JetBrains extension, open source on GitHub, but you need to figure out HOW to publish it to the JetBrains marketplace - this new GitHub Action can help!"
+---
+
+Introducing "[JetBrains Marketplace Publisher](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/visual-studio-marketplace-publisher)", a GitHub Action that assists you in publishing your Visual Studio extensions to the marketplace through a workflow on GitHub!
+
+Imagine you have a workflow in GitHub that builds your extension and posts the resulting ZIP file as an artifact to the run and then you have to download that artifact and upload to the marketplace _MANUALLY_. Swap out the artifact upload with this new extension, and automate the whole thing. Its as easy as referencing the new Action in your workflow -
+
+```yaml
+ - name: JetBrains Marketplace Publisher
+    uses: CodingWithCalvin/GHA-JBMarketplacePublisher@v1
+    with:
+      # REQUIRED
+      marketplace-pat: ${{ secrets.marketplace_pat }}
+      archive-path: ./src/outputFolder/extension.zip
+
+      # ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IS REQUIRED, BUT NOT BOTH
+      plugin-id: 1000
+      plugin-xml-id: "1001"
+
+      # OPTIONAL
+      channel: stable
+      is-hidden: false
+```
+
+Provide your secret PAT, your archive, and one of plugin-id or plugin-xml-id - then sit back and relax while all the magic happens for you. Note there are a couple other optional parameters to control which channel your plugin is released to and whether to keep it hidden after approval.
+
+Of course, [its open source](https://github.com/CodingWithCalvin/GHA-JBMarketplacePublisher), so feel free to peruse the source code, create issues, and have discussions on ways we can make this tool even better!