automatically creating a new release isn't working

creation of a new github release is being skipped. But the releases are being tagged - and it appears that they are being tagged multiple times. e.g. we were at v0.0.5, I tried to manually push to 0.0.6 but the yag was already in place, I tried to 0.0.7 this was also in place - I had to uplift to 0.0.8