Automatically calculate next version (#746)

Author: therve

.github/workflows/prepare_release.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ on:
     inputs:
       version:
         description: New version number (e.g. '1.2.3' without the 'v' prefix)
-        required: true
 
 jobs:
   prepare_release:
@@ -37,19 +36,32 @@ jobs:
         with:
           node-version: 14
 
+      - name: Calculate version
+        id: get_version
+        run: |
+          if [ "${VERSION}" = "" ] ; then
+            LATEST_TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
+            NEXT_TAG=$(echo ${LATEST_TAG#v} | awk '{split($0, a, "."); print a[1] "." a[2] + 1 "." a[3]}')
+            echo ::set-output name=version::$NEXT_TAG
+          else
+            echo ::set-output name=version::$VERSION
+          fi
+        env:
+          VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
+
       - name: Bump version
         run: |
           git switch -c "release/${RELEASE_VERSION}"
           npm version --allow-same-version --no-git-tag-version "${RELEASE_VERSION}"
           git commit --allow-empty -a -m "Bump version to ${RELEASE_VERSION}"
           git push -f --set-upstream origin "release/${RELEASE_VERSION}"
         env:
-          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}
 
       - name: Create PR
         uses: actions/github-script@v5
         env:
-          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version }}
           BASE: ${{ github.event.ref }}
         with:
           github-token: ${{ steps.get_token.outputs.token }}