github-action-notify-release

GitHub Action that automatically creates an issue with an overview of the commits that are waiting to be released. After a new release is published, the issue will be automatically closed.

Permissions

This action requires the following permissions:

• issues: write
• contents: read

💡 contents:read is required because the action is using a actions/checkout@v3 action to download the repository content.

Usage

Configure this action in your workflows providing the inputs described below in order to get notified in x time after the repo has been updated but no release has happened.

It is possible to snooze the notification issue for x time by closing it as not planned. Once the time has passed a new issue will be created.

Inputs

inputs	required	default	description
github-token	no	${{ github.token }}	A github token.
notify-after	no		The time after which unreleased commits should be considered stale and should notify for a release. This option accepts various time formats as described by the time conversion library ms.
stale-days	no	7	⚠️ Deprecated ⚠️ Number of days of inactivity before a release becomes stale. The value can be a number or a string.
commit-messages-lines	no	1	Limit the number of first x lines from commit messages that will be added in the issue description. No truncation when set to 0.

Example

name: notify-release
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  release:
    types: [published]
  issues:
    types: [closed]
  schedule:
    - cron: '30 8 * * *'
jobs:
  setup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      issues: write
      contents: read
    steps:
      - name: Notify release
        uses: nearform-actions/github-action-notify-release@v1