Fully automate tagging and publishing of new releases

[pascalberger]

Current workflow is like this:

1. Renovate creates PR when a new version of Renovate is available
2. After PR is merged develop is merged to main
3. main is backmerged to develop
4. GitHub release is created on main with tag of current version of Renovate with default release notes template

It would be nice to have this automated with GitHub actions. Step 3 above is not strictly necessary and in the current workflow since we use GitFlow.

Things todo:

• Auto merge Renovate PRs if the build succeeds
• If Renovate version is bumped start workflow to
  • Merge develop into main
  • Create GitHub release on main with tag of current version of Renovate and default release notes

[Xzelsius]

Would you want this automatic release to happen for each renovate PR or by specific user interaction?
e.g. user kicks off an action and then the release will be made (semi-automatic)

[pascalberger]

Perfect would be fully automatic, but having an action to trigger the create-release.ps1 script might be a first step.