Release Action Strategy

[dfreese]

Hi All,

Wanted to see if folks knew of other projects using github actions to build and publish releases. It would probably be reasonably straight-forward to roll something custom, but there are a number of different strategies in terms of how those actions are triggered, what side effects they have, etc. that have some room for interpretation.

Prior art on the subject seems to be:

• nash-io/cargo-release-action
• crate-ci/cargo-release

This is an open discussion on actions-rs/meta.

The most obvious thing to me seems to be:

1. Perform cargo publish --dry-run as a gating action against all pull requests that bump the version in Cargo.toml
2. On push, when that is merged, actually run cargo publish, (with the secret stored in Github Secrets).
3. Have the push action publish a github release and add a corresponding git tag.

@UebelAndre, fyi