Monkey Release Action

Validates a pull request intended for creating a GitHub Release. When merged the action will then create the release.

The action flow

• Trigger on PullRequestEvent with type opened, edited or reopened.
  • Add a label defined by release_label to the PR.
  • Validate title.
    • Checks that the PR title matches the defined release_pattern.
    • If release_pattern is a Calver containing named capture groups <year>, <month> and/or <day> it will check that the current date matches.
    • Check that a release with the same title does not already exist.
  • Validate that the PR body is not empty.
  • Validates that the PR is from an allowed branch defined by head_branch.
  • If above checks fails it will review the PR and request changes.
  • If above checks passes it will approve the PR.
• Trigger on PullRequestEvent with type closed and merged.
  • Create a GitHub Release with the title and body of the PR. The release tag will be constructed as tag_prefix/release.

Inputs

repo_token Required

The GITHUB_TOKEN. See details.

base_branch

The branch which the release PR will target. Defaults to master.

head_branch

The branch which the release PR originates from. Defaults to dev.

Can be a glob pattern:

• Each pattern is trimmed of whitespace.
• * is a wildcard that matches zero or more characters.
• , is a separator for specifying multiple branches.

head_branch: "dev, hotfix/*"

release_pattern

The pattern to validate the PR title against. If it contains any of the named capture groups <year>, <month> and/or <day> Calver validation will occur to ensure that the date is current.

Make sure it validates against https://regexr.com.

Defaults to ^(?<year>[0-9]{4})\.(?<month>[0-9]{2})\.(?<day>[0-9]{2})-\d$.

tag_prefix

The prefix to use when tagging release. Set to null or an empty string to disable tag-prefixing. Defaults to releases/.

tag_transformer

Apply a transform on the tag before validating and releasing it. Available choices: "title", "dashes-and-number".

The default is title, which supplies the PR title as is.

When using dashes-and-number, a PR with number 32 and title "Fix thing" becomes #32-fix-thing.

approve_releases

Sets if a PR should just be commented upon or approved and request changes depending on the success of validation. Accepts true or false. Defaults to true .

release_label

The label to add to the release PR. Set to an empty string to disable. Defaults to release.

prerelease

Creates a prerelease instead. Defaults to false.

validate

Validate name and description of PR according to provided input. Defaults to true.

create_status

Sets if a GitHub status should be created by the action. This is useful when wanting to restrict merging until the action runs successfully. Since GitHub creates a check on the PR for every PR event that triggers the action isn't useful to restrict merging by the action checks. Instead use this status specified by status_name. Defaults to true.

status_name

The name of the status created when create_status is set to true. Defaults to Monkey Release.

valid_release_message

Message to comment with on valid release PRs. Can be overridden to add custom cheerfulness or reminders. Defaults to Valid release 🍌.

Outputs

release

The release title.

Example usage

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, reopened, edited, closed]
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: 5monkeys/monkey-release-action@master
        id: release
        with:
          repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          base_branch: master
          head_branch: dev
          tag_prefix: releases/
          approve_releases: true
          release_label: release

Development

• Install deps: npm ci
• Run tests: npm run test
• Run lint: npm run lint
• Package application npm run package. Remember to run this before committing anything.