fix default branch handling and update UX

Author: blink1073

.github/actions/draft-release/action.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inputs:
     description: "The owner/repo GitHub target"
     required: true
   branch:
-    description: The branch to target"
+    description: The branch to target
     required: true
   version_spec:
     description: "New Version Specifier"

.github/workflows/draft-changelog.yml

@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ on:
         description: "The owner/repo GitHub target"
         required: true
       branch:
-        description: "The branch to target"
+        description: "The branch to target (defaults to default branch)"
       version_spec:
         description: "New Version Spec"
+        default: "next"
       since:
         description: Use PRs with activity since this date or git reference
       since_last_stable:

.github/workflows/draft-release.yml

@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ on:
         description: "The owner/repo GitHub target"
         required: true
       branch:
-        description: "The branch to target"
+        description: "The branch to target (defaults to default branch)"
       version_spec:
-        description: "New Version Specifier"
+        description: "New Version Spec"
+        default: "next"
       post_version_spec:
         description: "Post Version Specifier"
       since:

.github/workflows/full-release.yml

@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ on:
         description: "The owner/repo GitHub target"
         required: true
       branch:
-        description: "The branch to target"
+        description: "The branch to target (defaults to default branch)"
       version_spec:
-        description: "New Version Specifier"
+        description: "New Version Spec"
+        default: "next"
       post_version_spec:
         description: "Post Version Specifier"
       since:

jupyter_releaser/actions/draft_changelog.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     curr_dir = os.getcwd()
     os.chdir(CHECKOUT_NAME)
     since_last_stable = os.environ.get("RH_SINCE_LAST_STABLE")
-    since = get_latest_tag(os.environ["RH_BRANCH"], since_last_stable)
+    since = get_latest_tag(os.environ.get("RH_BRANCH"), since_last_stable)
     if since:
         log(f"Capturing {since} in RH_SINCE variable")
         os.environ["RH_SINCE"] = since

jupyter_releaser/actions/draft_release.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     curr_dir = os.getcwd()
     os.chdir(CHECKOUT_NAME)
     since_last_stable = os.environ.get("RH_SINCE_LAST_STABLE")
-    since = get_latest_tag(os.environ["RH_BRANCH"], since_last_stable)
+    since = get_latest_tag(os.environ.get("RH_BRANCH"), since_last_stable)
     if since:
         log(f"Capturing {since} in RH_SINCE variable")
         os.environ["RH_SINCE"] = since