git-backporting/.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml

# this workflow prepare the project for the next release, it will update changelog and version based on the previous commits.
# after that it will open a pull request for this change
name: "prepare release"

on: 
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      options:
        description: 'Additional release-it options'     
        required: false
        default: ''

env:
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

jobs:
  prepare-release:
    name: Prepare release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18
      - name: Git config
        run: |
          git config user.name "${GITHUB_ACTOR}"
          git config user.email "${GITHUB_ACTOR}@users.noreply.github.com"          
      - name: Npm config
        run: npm config set //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken $NPM_TOKEN
      - run: npm ci
      - name: Compute next version
        run: |
          next_version=$(npx release-it --release-version --no-git.requireCleanWorkingDir)
          echo "NEXT_VERSION=${next_version}" >> $GITHUB_ENV          
      - name: Prepare the release changes
        run: npm run release:prepare -- --ci --no-git.commit ${{ github.event.inputs.options }}
      - name: Create Pull Request
        uses: gr2m/create-or-update-pull-request-action@v1.x
        with:
          title: "chore: release v${{ env.NEXT_VERSION }}"
          body: >
            Creating changes for the next release.            
          branch: release/v${{ env.NEXT_VERSION }}
          commit-message: "chore: release v${{ env.NEXT_VERSION }}"
          reviewers: lampajr