chore: add gha-prelease workflow [no ci] (#129)

Author: iowillhoit

.github/workflows/create-github-release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: create-github-release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - prerelease/**
+    tags-ignore:
+      - "*"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      prerelease:
+        type: string
+        description: "Name to use for the prerelease: beta, dev, etc. NOTE: If this is already set in the package.json, it does not need to be passed in here."
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/workflows/create-github-release.yml@main
+    secrets: inherit
+    with:
+      prerelease: ${{ inputs.prerelease }}
+      # If this is a push event, we want to skip the release if there are no semantic commits
+      # However, if this is a manual release (workflow_dispatch), then we want to disable skip-on-empty
+      # This helps recover from forgetting to add semantic commits ('fix:', 'feat:', etc.)
+      skip-on-empty: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' }}
+  # docs:
+  #   # Most repos won't use this
+  #   # Depends on the 'release' job to avoid git collisions, not for any functionality reason
+  #   needs: release
+  #   secrets: inherit
+  #   if: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' }}
+  #   uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/workflows/publishTypedoc.yml@main

.github/workflows/failureNotifications.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 name: failureNotifications
-
 on:
   workflow_run:
     workflows:
       - version, tag and github release
       - publish
+      - create-github-release
     types:
       - completed
-
 jobs:
   failure-notify:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.github/workflows/manualRelease.yml

@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 name: publish
-
 on:
   release:
+    # both release and prereleases
     types: [published]
+  # support manual release in case something goes wrong and needs to be repeated or tested
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       tag:
-        description: tag that needs to publish
+        description: github tag that needs to publish
         type: string
         required: true
-
 jobs:
-  # parses the package.json version and detects prerelease tag (ex: beta from 4.4.4-beta.0)
   getDistTag:
     outputs:
       tag: ${{ steps.distTag.outputs.tag }}
@@ -22,7 +21,6 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name || inputs.tag  }}
       - uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/actions/getPreReleaseTag@main
         id: distTag
-
   npm:
     uses: salesforcecli/github-workflows/.github/workflows/npmPublish.yml@main
     needs: [getDistTag]
@@ -31,4 +29,5 @@ jobs:
       sign: true
       tag: ${{ needs.getDistTag.outputs.tag || 'latest' }}
       githubTag: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name || inputs.tag }}
+
     secrets: inherit