Product Version Tags Github Action

This Github Action helps to manage the life cycle of versioning in a monorepo approach. The idea is to keep three stages: pre-release, release and fixes, and keep the same version for all the monorepo components.

Pre Release

This stage hold all the new features that will be into the next release. These features are merged to main or master branch, and each Pull Request to this branch will increase the version.

The version in this stage is compound as follow:

v<next-release-major>.<next-release-minor>-<pre-release-prefix>.<pre-release-patch>

e.g.: v0.3-alpha.4

Example usage

In the following example we are working in a monorepo with two components: Back and Front. These components have their respective tests Workflows, that are required before create a new pre-release tag version.

name: PreRelease

on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: ["Back/Tests", "Front/Tests"]
    branches: [main]
    types: 
      - completed

jobs:
  generate-prerelease:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Generate a pre-release
        uses: intelygenz/[email protected]
        with:
          current-major: 0
          prefix: "release-"
          mode: 'pre-release'
          pre-release: 'alpha'
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Release

Once all the required features are merged to main branch, a manual step allow to generate the first version of the new release. This Workflow mode will create a new branch based on main with the prefix and using the major and minor version of the pre-release tag. Also a new tag will created adding 0 as patch.

Based on the following scenario

• Current Release Branch: release-0.2
• Current Release: v0.2.8
• Current PreRelease: v0.3-alpha.4

After manual Workflow run will be generated the followings:

• Branch: release-0.3
• Tag: v0.3.0

Example usage

name: Release

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  create-release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Generate a release
        uses: intelygenz/[email protected]
        with:
          prefix: "release-"
          mode: 'release'
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Fix

When a released version needs a hotfix, or any feature improvement, is required to create a new patch version. With this mode a new tag in the release branch is created with the increased patch version.

e.g.: v0.3.0 --> v0.3.1 in branch release-0.3

Example usage

name: Fix

on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: ["Back/Tests", "Front/Tests"]
    branches: ["release-*"]
    types: 
      - completed

jobs:
  create-fix:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Generate a fix
        uses: intelygenz/[email protected]
        with:
          prefix: "release-"
          mode: 'fix'
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}