RFE: is it possible to start making github releases?🤔

[kloczek]

On create github release entry is created email notification to those whom have set in your repo the web UI Watch->Releases. gh release can contain additional comments (li changelog) or additional assets like release tar balls (by default it contains only assets from git tag) however all those part are not obligatory. In simplest variant gh release can be empty because subiekt of the sent email contains git tag name.

I'm asking because my automation process uses those email notifications by trying to make preliminary automated upgrades of building packages, which allows saving some time on maintaining packaging procedures. Probably other people may be interested to be instantly informed about release new version as well.

Documentation and examples of generate gh releases: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/managing-releases-in-a-repository https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_release_upload/ https://github.com/jbms/sphinx-immaterial/pull/282 https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-release https://pgjones.dev/blog/trusted-plublishing-2023/ https://github.com/jbms/sphinx-immaterial/issues/281#issuecomment-1700933026 tox target to publish on pypi and make gh release https://github.com/jaraco/skeleton/blob/928e9a86d61d3a660948bcba7689f90216cc8243/tox.ini#L42-L58

[mrabarnett]

I've just released regex 2023.12.25. I tried several times to get notifications to work, but on each attempt it reported an error of some form or other. Maybe next time.

[jaraco]

Here's how I publish GitHub releases automatically across all of my projects:

• GHA builds and publishes tagged releases to PyPI.
• The tox -e release environment allows for manual and automated releases to follow the same flow, including defining dependencies.
• That routine calls into jaraco.develop.create-github-release, to actually create the release.

You're welcome to borrow or copy any of that behavior if that helps.