Simple way to create Github Release after CI succeeds

[KannarFr]

There is a simple way to automatically create a github release when CI publish succeeds?

[hagaiovadia]

You need to add the publish step and also tag reference

If it's your first time of release you need also to configure sonatype account
https://central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-guide/

To release the new version, all you need to do is create a new tag on Github and Github Actions will publish a release to Sonatype.

The SBT plugin (sbt-github-actions) with the settings in build.sbt, automatically parses Git tags as version numbers and knows to publish the project with the correct version.

For example: set the tag name as v0.0.1 and it will be published as 0.0.1

  githubWorkflowPublishTargetBranches := Seq(RefPredicate.StartsWith(Ref.Tag("v"))),
  githubWorkflowTargetTags ++= Seq("v*"),
  githubWorkflowPublish := Seq(
    WorkflowStep.Sbt(
      List("ci-release"),
      env = Map(
        "PGP_PASSPHRASE" -> "${{ secrets.PGP_PASSPHRASE }}",
        "PGP_SECRET" -> "${{ secrets.PGP_SECRET }}",
        "SONATYPE_PASSWORD" -> "${{ secrets.SONATYPE_PASSWORD }}",
        "SONATYPE_USERNAME" -> "${{ secrets.SONATYPE_USERNAME }}")))))

[KannarFr]

@hagaiovadia thanks for your answer. Nevertheless, this is not my question :p, I already have these steps working.

My question is how to easily create a Github Release (using Github API I guess) when the publish on sonatype succeeds.

[KannarFr]

Like this ^

[hagay3]

@KannarFr
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/releases#create-a-release

[KannarFr]

@hagay3 of course (wanted to know if it was implemented as optional step). Anyway, it would be nice to handle it as optional step in sbt-github-actions ;).

[hagay3]

@KannarFr
I think the purpose of sbt-github-actions is to generate a github actions yaml .

[KannarFr]

Hum correct, it should be managed in sbt-ci-release.