Automatically update git major tags on GitHub marketplace release

Motivation

Having previously dockerized our semantic release configuration in @open-sauced/semantic-release-conventional-config, a manual step was needed to publish the action in the GitHub marketplace.

This meant that forcing a major tag update with @semantic-release/exec as part of the release process was possible, but would result in the major tag (for example v3) linking to a valid repository commit SHA that is not actually released in the marketplace.

Sensibly solving these issues required:

keeping the semantic release configuration intact
testing the action container in another repository
having a maintainer manually edit and save the release
letting the marketplace.yml workflow update major tags in the curated release context

It may sound tedious but in practice, all a maintainer has to do to update the marketplace tags is edit a published release and press the save button. That's exactly 2 clicks from the repository front page and the simplest way to have acceptance testing.

My Workflow

name: "Action major version tag"

on:
  release:
    types:
      - published
      - edited

jobs:
  latest:
    name: Update action tags
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.ref }}

      - name: "🚀 publish action"
        uses: Actions-R-Us/actions-tagger@v2
        with:
          publish_latest_tag: false
          prefer_branch_releases: false