Merge pull request puppetlabs#438 from carabasdaniel/autoreleaseimprovement

Allow auto_release workflow schedule configuration

Author: pmcmaw

README.md

@@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ If you are using Gitpod you will need to opt-in and enable gitpod support for pd
 
 These workflows are depending on puppet-internal resources and are currently not suited for public consumption. Feel free to take them as inspiration how to run some tests on Github Actions. Please let us know at <[email protected]> what you come up with!
 
+### .github/workflows/auto_release.yml
+
+The auto release workflows uses the PDK experimental command `pdk release prep` to prepare a module release PR. By default the workflow can be triggered manually when a release preparation PR needs to be created, however it allows setting a cron based trigger that can run automatically. 
+To set up the automated release cron you can add a configuration to your .sync.yml file that matches the following example:
+```yaml
+release_schedule:
+   cron: '0 3 * * 6'
+```
+In this example the automated release prep workflow is triggered every Saturday at 3 am.
+
 ### .pdkignore
 
 >A .pdkignore file in your repo allows you to specify files to ignore when building a module package with `pdk build`.

moduleroot/.github/workflows/auto_release.yml.erb

@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 name: "Auto release"
 
 on:
+<% if common['release_schedule'] -%>
   schedule:
-    - cron: '0 3 * * 6'
+    - cron: <%= common['release_schedule']['cron'] %>
+<% end -%>
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 env: