add initial release action

Author: samspycher

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+name: Publish Package to GitHub Packages
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      packages: write # Needed to publish packages
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true # Ensure submodules are checked out if needed
+
+      - name: Set up JDK 8
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          java-version: "8"
+          distribution: "zulu"
+          cache: maven
+
+      - name: Configure Maven Settings for GitHub Packages
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          java-version: "8" # Repeat setup to ensure settings are configured
+          distribution: "zulu"
+          server-id: github # Value of the distributionManagement/repository/id field of the pom.xml
+          settings-path: ${{ github.workspace }} # location for the settings.xml file
+
+      - name: Publish package
+        run: mvn --batch-mode deploy -DskipTests=true
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Provided by Actions, used for authentication

pom.xml

@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
     <groupId>org.parallaxsecond</groupId>
     <artifactId>parsec-java</artifactId>
     <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <distributionManagement>
+        <repository>
+            <id>github</id>            <!-- MUST match the server-id in the workflow -->
+            <name>GitHub Apache Maven Packages</name>
+            <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/parallaxsecond/parsec-client-java</url>            <!-- Replace OWNER/REPOSITORY -->
+        </repository>
+    </distributionManagement>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <logback.version>1.3.15</logback.version>