Add automation to release new crates

[gjtorikian]

👋 This is an automation to make cutting new releases a little easier. It's a variation on a workflow I use in my Ruby gem releases.

Note that this release workflow only executes manually, ie. you have to still push the Release workflow button:

Step by step, it:

1. Grabs the repo, sets up rust
2. Gets the current version of the project defined in Cargo.toml
3. Generates a changelog/readme
4. Pushes those to the repo
5. Publishes the crate
6. Creates a tag, and publishes the release on GitHub

Along the way, I also see the opportunity to add more automations around dependency management.

I haven't tested this yet, but I will do so by changing the version number to something like 0.$LATEST.0.alpha if the PR is desired!

[github-actions]

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
./bench.sh ./comrak-34b110b	323.8 ± 1.8	321.0	328.1	2.82 ± 0.08
./bench.sh ./comrak-main	322.4 ± 1.7	319.9	326.4	2.80 ± 0.08
./bench.sh ./pulldown-cmark	115.0 ± 3.1	112.8	127.8	1.00
./bench.sh ./cmark-gfm	119.1 ± 3.1	116.7	130.0	1.04 ± 0.04
./bench.sh ./markdown-it	481.0 ± 2.7	475.6	487.5	4.18 ± 0.12

Run on Tue Apr 9 12:00:33 UTC 2024

[kivikakk]

This looks lovely! It'd be great to see a test run.

Also, looks like there's still some Rubygems stuff in the publish job?

[gjtorikian]

It'd be great to see a test run.

I swear this isn't a social engineering phishing attempt! 😅 But I just realized I don't have the ability to add secret tokens to this repo, so I can't add my own crates.io API key to use here—so it won't ever publish.

If you could add CRATES_IO_TOKEN as a secret variable, I can move forward with testing the run!

[kivikakk]

😅 Done!

[gjtorikian]

Sigh. Looks like you can't manually run a workflow—even if it's set to workflow_dispatch—until it's merged in the main branch.

In theory, I think all of this ought to work. Happy to make changes, and then once it's merged, actually attempt the automation? I'm not sure how else to test this.

[kivikakk]

Of course, please go ahead!