release-creator 📌

This action allows you to create a Github release dynamically.

Usage 📈

name: Release Creator

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Create a release
    steps:
      - uses: alice-biometrics/release-creator/@v1.0.5
        with:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          version: 'v2.0.0'
          description: 'This is an awesome version :ok_hand:'

Parameters ⚙️

You can configure additional info with the following parameters:

Param.	Required	Definition
GITHUB_TOKEN	true	GitHub token
version	true	New release version. If your action was generated by a release you can use inherit this will get version automatically
description	true	New release description. If your action was generated by a release you can use inherit this will get version automatically
repo	optional	Destination repo. Default value (this) will use current repository
branch	optional	Destination branch repo. Default value (master)
draft	optional	Define if is a draft or not. Use "true" or "false"
prerelease	optional	Define if is a prerelease or not. Use "true" or "false"

example:

name: Release Creator

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Create a release
    steps:
      - uses: alice-biometrics/release-creator/@v1.0.5
        with:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          version: 'v1.0.0'
          description: 'This is an awesome version :ok_hand:'
          repo: 'alice-biometrics/github-releaser'
          branch: 'master'
          draft: 'false'
          prerelease: 'false'

or if you execute the action on release:

Use Cases 👀

Duplicate Release Notes

Image you have a private repo where you develop your SDK. Additionally, you've made publicly available a Repo with some documentation about your SDK module.

• private repo: release-creator-example
• public repo: release-creator-example-lib

Use release-creator if you want to copy releases notes from one repo to another with:

From release-creator-example-lib ➡️ release-creator-example

name: Release Creator

on:
  release:
    types: [published]

jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Create a release
    steps:
      - uses: alice-biometrics/release-creator/@v1.0.5
        with:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          version: 'inherit'
          description: 'inherit'
          repo: 'alice-biometrics/release-creator-example'

License 📄

MIT

Contact 📬

support@alicebiometrics.com