ci: automated releases and luarocks uploads #1923
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Hey 👋
This PR introduces a release-please workflow that automatically opens (or updates) a release PR (which updates a changelog) when a conventional commit is merged into the
main
branch.Here's an example of what a release PR looks like:
The nice thing about this workflow is that you get to decide when to merge a release PR.
When doing so, the same workflow creates a release tag and publishes a GitHub release, with the (SemVer) version bump determined from the conventional commit messages.
If you add a personal access token to this repo's secrets (I assumed it to be named
PAT
in this PR), each release will automatically trigger a luarocks upload. I have modified the workflow file to work nicely with this.Important
conventional commit messages. As there has not been a release yet,
it will likely start at version 1.0.0. You can change the initial version with a manifest file.
included in release notes. You could enforce this with a GitHub action. Personally, I haven't ever had a need to do so.