A continuous experiment testing various features the devops team can use with their daily workflow.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/automated-releases

The sample Github actions below watches for changes on the VERSION.txt and triggers a release when VERSION.txt is changed. To use this, make sure to create a Github Personal Access Token (PAT), and add it as a Repository Secret named REPOSITORY_TOKEN.

# Create a GitHub Actions workflow YAML file (e.g., main.yml) in the .github/workflows directory
# This workflow will run only on the main branch

name: Automatically Publish Release

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - 'VERSION.txt'
    branches:
      - main
  push:
    paths:
      - 'VERSION.txt'
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  set-secret-and-run-python:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Automated Releases
        uses: AnshKetchum/auto-changelog-release@alpha-1
        with: 
          GIT_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REPOSITORY_TOKEN }}

1. Maintain a CHANGELOG.md file

2. Highlight your latest release by wrapping your entry with the following:

--LATEST-- YOUR CHANGELOG HERE --LATEST--

3. Highlight your description by wrapping the description inside with the following:

--DESCRIPTION-- YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE --DESCRIPTION--

Example:

--LATEST--
## [1.20.0]
--DESCRIPTION--
- Removed unnecessary log statements from the GCC toolchain from popping up on Windows
--DESCRIPTION--
--LATEST--

In a .env file, add a personal access token from Github.

GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>

1. Install the requirements. pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Run the python code. python create_release.py