Setup automatic WebExtension development builds/releases via CI

[koobs]

Setup automatic builds and (WebExtension) artifact creation via CI to facilitate better development workflow and easier/faster user testing prior to release.

• Per-PR and per-push CI
• Produce a GitHub 'release' for each PR created and/or merged or changeset pushed to master
• 'New' releases should contain commits / commit log messages since the last build (ie; a changelog)
• Submit new builds to AMO on creation of release tag (if possible) [1]

Possibly Relevant/Useful Links:

• Command line tool to help build, run, and test WebExtensions
• [1] Add web-ext submit to submit listed add-ons to AMO mozilla/web-ext#804
• webext-shipit: Automate shipping Web Extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Edge.
• webext-shipit-submit: Wrapper around Mozilla’s web-ext to submit extensions to AMO
• Continuous Integration for a Firefox Extension

[devmount]

+1 for automation. This is already on my todo list - I'll see when I have time to properly implement this.

[devmount]

I've now added a GitHub action, that does the following:

• build the project on each commit/push
• create a corresponding Thunderbird add-on .xpi file, named after the next minor release with an alpha suffix and a timestamp of creation
• save that file as artifact and push it to a dedicated CDN

I won't automate the creation of releases as I want to keep the release list clean from alpha releases.

GitHub artifacts can be found under Actions > Nightly Builds > Choose last build and scroll to the artifacts section:
https://github.com/devmount/third-stats/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Nightly+build%22

The ThirdStats release CDN can be found here:
https://third-stats.cdn.devmount.com/

Thanks again for proposing this. As soon as ATN is able to automatically receive submissions, I will implement your last point with an additional GitHub action.

[koobs]

Thanks @devmount Can we add a link to the 'per commit' (main) somewhere in the docs or repo README (or whever else is appropriate

[devmount]

Already done that: