Thanks for this! I think it's a good idea to automatically create the version. Can you delete the version input from the action config file? Then, feel free to merge :)

Just saw your comment in Slack. What is the version attribute used for now?

Just saw your comment in Slack. What is the version attribute used for now?

@runemadsen It is used to set the name of the release: name: 'Website ${{ inputs.version }}'

Thanks for this! I think it's a good idea to automatically create the version. Can you delete the version input from the action config file? Then, feel free to merge :)

Right now I'm automatically creating the unique tag, not the version name. I'm actually not sure where the idea of having a unique tag for each release started or if it is necessary but I emulated it here.

Automatically generating the version name would be tricky, since we may want to get the website out of Beta at some point, or bump it up from version 7 to 8 at some point and this is subjective and not a decision we can easily automate.

Thanks for that. The unique tag is only needed for the GitHub release, since GitHub uses this to make a Git tag in the current HEAD of the branch. I was just wondering whether we need the version at all if it's only used to populate the release field. Could we just rename it to Release title?

I was just wondering whether we need the version at all if it's only used to populate the release field. Could we just rename it to Release title?

@runemadsen: Gotcha! I made this change. Do these commit look ok? I'm kinda new to the whole GH workflows thing :)

Looks good to me! I've never set an ENV variable like this, but give it a whirl and see how it goes!

Hmm, yeah that doesn't seem to be the proper way to set env variables. I'll fix this before merging.

Edit: the normal way to set environment variables doesn't work for dynamic variables. this is promising: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26342

@runemadsen It worked! Here's what I ended up with:

- name: Set Tag Name
        run: |
          echo "RELEASE_DATE=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S')" >> ${GITHUB_ENV}

Great!