Publish a GitHub Release after tagging (#782)

Co-authored-by: Abhinav Singh <126065+abhinavsingh@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/test-library.yml

@@ -764,4 +764,38 @@ jobs:
  to the just published release back to GitHub
  run: >-
  git push --atomic origin '${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.git-tag }}'
+
+ publish-github-release:
+ name: >-
+ Publish a GitHub Release for
+ ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.git-tag }}
+ needs:
+ - post-release-repo-update
+ - pre-setup # transitive, for accessing settings
+ runs-on: Ubuntu-latest
+
+ permissions:
+ contents: write
+
+ steps:
+ - name: Download all the dists
+ uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
+ with:
+ name: python-package-distributions
+ path: dist/
+
+ - name: >-
+ Publish a GitHub Release for
+ ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.git-tag }}
+ uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
+ with:
+ # body/body_path: # FIXME: Use once Towncrier is integrated.
+ discussion_category_name: Announcements
+ fail_on_unmatched_files: true
+ files: |
+ dist/${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.sdist-artifact-name }}
+ dist/${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.wheel-artifact-name }}
+ name: ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.git-tag }}
+ tag_name: ${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.git-tag }}
+ target_commitish: ${{ github.event.inputs.release-commitish }}
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