release_draft.yml

name: Release - create draft release
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      tag-name:
        description: 'Name of git tag to be created, and then draft release created. Syntax: "v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+".'
        required: true

jobs:
  release-draft:
    needs: check-tag
    runs-on: {your-runner}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          persist-credentials: false

      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5.1.1
        with:
          python-version: '3.11'

      - name: Check format of received tag
        id: check-version-tag
        uses: AbsaOSS/version-tag-check@v0.1.0
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          github-repository: ${{ github.repository }}
          branch: 'master'
          version-tag: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}

      - name: Generate Release Notes
        id: generate_release_notes
        uses: AbsaOSS/generate-release-notes@v0.3.0
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tag-name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
          chapters: '[
            {"title": "No entry 🚫", "label": "duplicate"},
            {"title": "No entry 🚫", "label": "invalid"},
            {"title": "No entry 🚫", "label": "wontfix"},
            {"title": "No entry 🚫", "label": "no RN"},
            {"title": "Breaking Changes 💥", "label": "breaking-change"},
            {"title": "New Features 🎉", "label": "enhancement"},
            {"title": "New Features 🎉", "label": "feature"},
            {"title": "Bugfixes 🛠", "label": "bug"},
            {"title": "Infrastructure ⚙️", "label": "infrastructure"},
            {"title": "Silent-live 🤫", "label": "silent-live"},
            {"title": "Documentation 📜", "label": "documentation"}
          ]'
          skip-release-notes-label: 'no RN'
          verbose: true

          warnings: true
          print-empty-chapters: true

      - name: Create and Push Tag
        uses: actions/github-script@v7
        with:
          script: |
            const tag = core.getInput('tag-name')
            const ref = `refs/tags/${tag}`;
            const sha = context.sha; // The SHA of the commit to tag

            await github.rest.git.createRef({
              owner: context.repo.owner,
              repo: context.repo.repo,
              ref: ref,
              sha: sha
            });

            console.log(`Tag created: ${tag}`);
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          tag-name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}

      - name: Create Draft Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
          body: ${{ steps.generate_release_notes.outputs.release-notes }}
          tag_name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
          draft: true
          prerelease: false