Adding release kickoff github actions and introduce new release config JSON fields #1036
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| - name: Configure Bot Alias | ||
| run: | | ||
| git config --global user.name "GenerateConfig Action" | ||
| git config --global user.email "gcabot@github.com" |
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Is this a new bot account we are setting up? should it be @amazon.com?
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good q. no it's not, you can think of it as a "dummy user" like we do in https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-ami/blob/8fb9159108e9682a84d830c34f866fc08710a9d7/.github/workflows/initiaterelease.yml#L40-L41
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Summary
This PR will introduce new github actions that will help with detecting any new changes to upstream dependencies (e.g. new Amazon linux image). This will also introduce a couple of new JSON fields to
linux.versionto help with the release process in the very near future.Implementation
.github/workflows/initiaterelease.ymlthat defines the new github action to check for any new updates and then create a new "release PR" if there are any.github/workflows/postkickoff.ymlthat defines another github action that will help with clean up post release PR creation and merge.check-update.shhelper script that gets invoked in the initiaterelease github action. This is the script where it does all of the checking and updating forlinux.versionrelease-version,release-fluent-bit, andamazon-linux-shathat is used withincheck-update.shto check if a new release PR needs to be created.Testing
Example release PR: mye956#16
Example/testing github action: https://github.com/mye956/aws-for-fluent-bit/actions/runs/19178296966
make debugsucceeded:Integ tests succeeded:
New tests cover the changes:
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Licensing
By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.