Create workflow actions for automated releasing

[zmarkan]

New release and snapshots actions for automated publishing to Maven Central. Fulfills https://github.com/getditto/DittoAndroidTools/issues/80

Release workflow triggers on new release publish in GitHub - all projects with the same version deployed at the same time - so we can keep consistency. Signing is automated, using GitHub's secrets.

Snapshots workflow currently doesn't work but would ideally trigger nightly. Leaving the script in there to eventually debug & fix.

Let me know if it makes sense - happy to walk you folks through it & answer any Qs.

And most importantly thanks Raj for your help looking at error logs!!!

[rajramsaroop]

Sorry if this is a silly question as I'm not that familiar with GHA. Can anyone with a GH account run the GHA, or do we need to setup permissions so that only certain people/level of access can publish?

[rajramsaroop]

I think we should add either a RELEASING.md or something in Notion to describe how to release to describe the workflow for updating the versions then publishing etc.

[rajramsaroop]

Scripts look good to me, just left 2 comments.

[zmarkan]

Sorry if this is a silly question as I'm not that familiar with GHA. Can anyone with a GH account run the GHA, or do we need to setup permissions so that only certain people/level of access can publish?

At the moment, anyone with write access to the repo can publish a release which will trigger the release action. Seemed like a sensible default option.
If we need to, we can change permissions / triggers so that only members of certain groups can do it. Happy to hear others' thoughts?

I think we should add either a RELEASING.md or something in Notion to describe how to release to describe the workflow for updating the versions then publishing etc.

Great idea - I'll write it up this morning. Can draft it in notion then either move to the repo or keep there.

[zmarkan]

I documented everything - the process and the scripts.
I think this should cover everything: https://www.notion.so/getditto/Publishing-Automation-f3ff687ee9f24e059bbc85af716f2d3d

[bplattenburg]

@zmarkan Thanks for documenting! I think that is the right place to leave those docs given this is a public repo

[rajramsaroop]

Great work!

I think the current permissions are fine, but we can revisit later if anyone wants something different.

Notion doc is a good place too.

[okdistribute]

Nice!

[zmarkan]

So do we just merge now it's been approved? Or is there a step in the flow that I'm missing?

[rajramsaroop]

So do we just merge now it's been approved? Or is there a step in the flow that I'm missing?

Yes you can merge!