diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-conda.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-conda.yml
index 487e0cf..69fef3b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-conda.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-conda.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 name: publish_conda
+
 on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-    # only upload upon MR acceptance.
-    - main
+  workflow_run:
+    workflows: ["Semantic Release"]
+    types:
+      - completed
+
 jobs:
   publish:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/semantic-release.yml b/.github/workflows/semantic-release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8dc5e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/semantic-release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+name: Semantic Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  semantic-release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+
+      - name: Install python-semantic-release
+        run: pip install python-semantic-release
+
+      - name: Configure git user
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+          git config --global user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+
+      - name: Run semantic-release version, changelog, and tag
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          semantic-release version
+          semantic-release changelog
+          semantic-release tag
+          git push --follow-tags
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-pip-install-run-pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/test-pip-install-run-pytest.yml
index 181b0af..6575bad 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-pip-install-run-pytest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-pip-install-run-pytest.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         pip install .
 
+    - name: Install and use pylint
+      run: |
+        pip install pylint
+        pylint catalogbuilder --exit-zero
+
     - name: Make sample data
       run: |
         which python
diff --git a/catalogbuilder/intakebuilder/localcrawler.py b/catalogbuilder/intakebuilder/localcrawler.py
index 4002551..7cd3632 100644
--- a/catalogbuilder/intakebuilder/localcrawler.py
+++ b/catalogbuilder/intakebuilder/localcrawler.py
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 import os
 from . import getinfo
 import re
-import logger
-logger = logging.getLogger(
+import logging
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 def crawlLocal(projectdir, dictFilter):
     '''