Automate Updating Major Release Tag on New Releases of a GitHub Action

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    Coverage badges, and pull request coverage checks, from JaCoCo reports in GitHub Actions

    I maintain several GitHub Actions, such as jacoco-badge-generator, generate-sitemap, javadoc-cleanup, and user-statistician. I've also written posts here on DEV about each of these if you'd like more information. GitHub's documentation for GitHub Action developers recommends maintaining a major release tag for the Action so that users can either reference the Action by its specific release tag, such as v1.2.3, or simply by the major release with v1. In fact, it is so commonplace that users will likely assume that your Action supports specifying full version tag or major tag only. Note that some Actions use major release branches (e.g., branch named v1) instead of tags. My intention in this post is not to discuss the advantages/disadvantages of each of these alternative approaches. In the Actions that I maintain, I use major release tags for the simple reason that it is what GitHub's documentation recommends.

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    Generate an XML sitemap for a GitHub Pages site using GitHub Actions

    I maintain several GitHub Actions, such as jacoco-badge-generator, generate-sitemap, javadoc-cleanup, and user-statistician. I've also written posts here on DEV about each of these if you'd like more information. GitHub's documentation for GitHub Action developers recommends maintaining a major release tag for the Action so that users can either reference the Action by its specific release tag, such as v1.2.3, or simply by the major release with v1. In fact, it is so commonplace that users will likely assume that your Action supports specifying full version tag or major tag only. Note that some Actions use major release branches (e.g., branch named v1) instead of tags. My intention in this post is not to discuss the advantages/disadvantages of each of these alternative approaches. In the Actions that I maintain, I use major release tags for the simple reason that it is what GitHub's documentation recommends.

  4. javadoc-cleanup

    Create mobile-friendly documentation sites by post-processing javadocs in GitHub Actions

    I maintain several GitHub Actions, such as jacoco-badge-generator, generate-sitemap, javadoc-cleanup, and user-statistician. I've also written posts here on DEV about each of these if you'd like more information. GitHub's documentation for GitHub Action developers recommends maintaining a major release tag for the Action so that users can either reference the Action by its specific release tag, such as v1.2.3, or simply by the major release with v1. In fact, it is so commonplace that users will likely assume that your Action supports specifying full version tag or major tag only. Note that some Actions use major release branches (e.g., branch named v1) instead of tags. My intention in this post is not to discuss the advantages/disadvantages of each of these alternative approaches. In the Actions that I maintain, I use major release tags for the simple reason that it is what GitHub's documentation recommends.

  5. user-statistician

    Generate a GitHub stats SVG for your GitHub Profile README in GitHub Actions

    I maintain several GitHub Actions, such as jacoco-badge-generator, generate-sitemap, javadoc-cleanup, and user-statistician. I've also written posts here on DEV about each of these if you'd like more information. GitHub's documentation for GitHub Action developers recommends maintaining a major release tag for the Action so that users can either reference the Action by its specific release tag, such as v1.2.3, or simply by the major release with v1. In fact, it is so commonplace that users will likely assume that your Action supports specifying full version tag or major tag only. Note that some Actions use major release branches (e.g., branch named v1) instead of tags. My intention in this post is not to discuss the advantages/disadvantages of each of these alternative approaches. In the Actions that I maintain, I use major release tags for the simple reason that it is what GitHub's documentation recommends.

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