release-start.yml

# This is a basic workflow that is manually triggered

name: Release start

# Controls when the action will run. Workflow runs when manually triggered using the UI
# or API.
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    # Inputs the workflow accepts.
    inputs:
      release_version_name:
        description: 'New release version name'
        required: true
        type: string

      development_version_name:
        description: 'Development version name'
        required: true
        type: string

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  create_branch:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Check out code
      uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Set up Python
      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
      with:
        python-version: 3.12.1

    - name: setup git config
      run: |
        # setup the username and email.
        git config user.name "GitHub Actions Bot"
        git config user.email "<android@dhis2.org>"

    - name: Run Python script to update base branch version
      run: python scripts/updateVersionName.py ${{ inputs.development_version_name }}

    - name: Commit and Push Changes
      run: |
        git add .
        git commit -m "Update version to ${{ inputs.development_version_name }}"
        git push

      # override vName with new version
    - name: Create release branch
      run: git checkout -b release/${{ inputs.release_version_name }}

    - name: Run Python script to update release branch version
      run: python scripts/updateVersionName.py ${{ inputs.release_version_name }}

    - name: Push
      run: |
        git add .
        git commit -m "Update version to ${{ inputs.release_version_name }}"
        git push origin release/${{ inputs.release_version_name }}