A GitHub action that automatically drafts a GitHub release based on a newly closed milestone.

The issues that were closed as part of the milestone will be used as the basis to generate the release notes.

(Required) The GITHUB_TOKEN used to access the current repository from the GitHub REST API.

The URL of the GitHub release that was drafted. Defaults to an empty string.

Here's an example of a workflow that listens for the milestone: closed event and automatically creates a release draft with the issues that were closed as release notes. It also prints the URL of the release page to the build log.

name: Test
on:
  milestone:
    types: [closed]
jobs:
  release:
    name: Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Create a release draft for a milestone
        id: create-release-milestone
        uses: ecampidoglio/auto-release-milestone@v1
        with:
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - name: Print the URL of the release draft
        if: steps.create-release-milestone.outputs.release-url != ''
        run: echo ${{ steps.create-release-draft.outputs.release-url }}