🧑‍💻 Release trigger action - second approach (#1011)

* ♻️ Use `gh` CLI to trigger workflow

Use `gh` CLI to trigger workflow rather than relying on `push:tags` trigger, which doesn't work.

* 🔖 Bump version

.github/workflows/cd.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 name: Release
 
 on:
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - "v2.*.*" # Match tags that begin with "v2".
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: "The release version."
+        required: true
+        default: "v2.x.x"
 
 jobs:
   build-distribution:
@@ -56,6 +59,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          ref: 2.0
 
       - name: Set up QEMU
         uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v3
@@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Construct the tag for Docker images
         run: |
           # Strip the "v" prefix for the image tag.
-          VERSION=${{ github.ref_name }}
+          VERSION=${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
           echo "TAG=${VERSION#v}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Build and publish viadot-lite image

.github/workflows/detect-and-tag-new-version.yml

@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ jobs:
         with:
           tag: v${{ steps.get-version.outputs.version }}
 
-      - name: Set up git user
-        # Note: we cannot use the default user here or things like fregante/setup-git-user@v1
-        # because this will magically not trigger the cd.yml workflow (it turns out the on:push:tags
-        # trigger does not work for tags pushed using the GitHub Actions bot's token).
-        run: |
-          git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
-          git config --global user.name "Ludovico Bot"
+      - uses: fregante/setup-git-user@v2
+        if: steps.check-tag.outputs.exists != 'true'
 
       - name: Publish the new tag
         # Trigger the cd.yml workflow if a new tag is detected.
+        id: publish-tag
         if: steps.check-tag.outputs.exists != 'true'
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_BOT_TOKEN }}
         run: |
           git tag -a v${{ steps.get-version.outputs.version }} -m "Release v${{ steps.get-version.outputs.version }}"
           git push origin v${{ steps.get-version.outputs.version }}
+
+      - name: Run the release workflow
+        if: steps.check-tag.outputs.exists != 'true'
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_BOT_TOKEN }}
+        run: gh workflow run cd.yml -f version=${{ steps.get-version.outputs.version }} --ref 2.0

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "viadot2"
-version = "2.1.10"
+version = "2.1.11"
 description = "A simple data ingestion library to guide data flows from some places to other places."
 authors = [
     { name = "acivitillo", email = "[email protected]" },