feat: Create release start job develop

.github/workflows/continuous-deployment.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - develop # Automatically generates snapshot versions
-
+      - release/* # Automatically generates release versions
   workflow_dispatch: ## manually generates release versions
     inputs:
       release_version:
@@ -20,22 +20,19 @@ jobs:
     # The type of runner that the job will run on
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
-    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
     steps:
-      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
       - name: Set Up JDK
         uses: actions/setup-java@v3
         with:
-          distribution: 'zulu' # See 'Supported distributions' for available options
+          distribution: 'zulu'
           java-version: '17'
           cache: 'gradle'
 
       - name: Change wrapper permissions
         run: chmod +x ./gradlew
 
-      # Create publish to maven
       - name: Publish to maven
         run: ./.github/workflows/scripts/publish-maven.sh
         env:

.github/workflows/release-start.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+name: Release start
+
+# Controls when the action will run. Workflow runs when manually triggered using the UI
+# or API.
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    # Inputs the workflow accepts.
+    inputs:
+      release_version_name:
+        description: 'New release version name'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+      development_version_name:
+        description: 'Development version name'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
+jobs:
+  create_branch:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.12.1
+
+      - name: setup git config
+        run: |
+          # setup the username and email.
+          git config user.name "GitHub Actions Bot"
+          git config user.email "<android@dhis2.org>"
+
+        # override version with new version
+      - name: Create release branch
+        run: git checkout -b release/${{ inputs.release_version_name }}
+
+      - name: Run Python script to update release branch version
+        run: python scripts/updateVersionName.py ${{ inputs.release_version_name }}
+
+      - name: Push
+        run: |
+          git add .
+          git commit -m "Update version to ${{ inputs.release_version_name }}"
+          git push origin release/${{ inputs.release_version_name }}
+
+  update_version:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.12.1
+
+      - name: setup git config
+        run: |
+          # setup the username and email.
+          git config user.name "GitHub Actions Bot"
+          git config user.email "<android@dhis2.org>"
+
+      - name: Create release branch
+        run: git checkout -b update_version_to${{ inputs.development_version_name }}
+
+      - name: Run Python script to update base branch version
+        run: python scripts/updateVersionName.py ${{ inputs.development_version_name }}
+
+      - name: Commit and Push Changes
+        run: |
+          git add .
+          git commit -m "Update version to ${{ inputs.development_version_name }}"
+          git push origin update_version_to${{ inputs.development_version_name }}
+
+      - name: create pull request
+        run: gh pr create -B develop -H update_version_to${{ inputs.development_version_name }} --title 'Merge update_version_to${{ inputs.development_version_name }} into develop' --body 'Created by Github action'
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/scripts/updateVersionName.py

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import sys
+import re
+
+def update_version_in_gradle(file_path, new_version):
+    with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
+        content = file.read()
+
+    # Use regex to find and replace the version value
+    updated_content = re.sub(r'version\s*=\s*"[0-9.]+-SNAPSHOT"', f'version = "{new_version}"', content)
+
+    with open(file_path, 'w') as file:
+        file.write(updated_content)
+
+    print("File updated successfully!")
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+    new_version = sys.argv[1]
+    file_path = 'build.gradle.kts'
+    update_version_in_gradle(file_path, new_version)
+else:
+    print("No new version provided. To update the version, pass the new version as a command-line argument.")