action-gh-release VS gather-town-desktop-releases

While those actions are indeeded archived, they do recommend some other community actions to use. I have used https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release and it works well. That said, you need to do your own due diligence on how comfortable you are using community actions.

Create a new workflow, and then enter the code below. This code will create the PDF version of the latex file with every push into this repository. Each push will create a new release of your resume's latest iteration, and it will be an artifact attached to this. You may encounter an error based off the permission of the GitHub Action but this issue is explained well in this post.

Alternatively, if you do not want to use the LaTeX compilation process on GitHub Actions, you can omit the building process and track the locally generated PDF file as well. Usually binary files, PDF files in this case, are not tracked. You can remove the Compile LaTeX Document step in the .github/workflows/release.yml file, and start tracking the output PDF in your repository. By this way, you can move the compilation process to local. However, if you follow this path, by default, you will not have your output PDF listed under releases. It is possible to achieve this by editing the Release step in the workflow (see action-gh-release for more information).

I use https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release to create releases when pull requests happen. But I don't understand how I'm supposed to set tags. The README states this: yml if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')

action-gh-release really makes it easy to do these steps.

softprops/action-gh-release able to achieve that in two lines of code.

Finally, we use a 3rd-party release creation Action for creating a release draft with the release notes and artifacts we just created:

There is a way that you can remain your source code in a private repo, and only release your packages in a public repo. This is how gathertown did.