Investigate Automating Releases

[masokol]

Story Description:

Currently releases of ecChronos need to be done manually. It would be nice to automate this so releases are performed with a click of the button. I think these points needs to be investigated in order to know what needs to be done:

• Set release version and next version
• Release from specific branch
• Merge forward if releasing from a branch, i.e not master
• Creating a release in github
• Updating changelog automatically
• GPG

Acceptance Criteria:

N/A

Definition of Done:

New issue(s) are created to automate the release process.

Notes:

See comments below.

[masokol]

Set release version and next version - We can use input params to workflow_dispatch for this. Release from specific branch - Whoever is triggering the workflow has to choose a branch from a drop-down list. The workflow will be run from that specific branch. I.e release workflow will need to exist for all branches. The branch name can be accessed from GITHUB_REF variable.

[masokol]

Maven deploy plugin should be replaced with nexus-maven-plugin

[masokol]

GPG - Use this action. Also we need some kind of a generic GPG key, i.e not tied to a specific person. Same goes for sonatype user/pwd.