feat: Introduce release_impl.yml workflow to automatically create rel… (#2043)

…eases

Work on: https://github.com/XRPLF/clio/issues/1779

Features:
- works in PRs (everything but actually pushing a release)
- supports custom release notes header
- removes previous release for nightly releases

The idea is that creating releases should be automatic or almost
automatic and should work more or less the same for nightly and actual
releases.

I haven't yet implemented automatic release process for the actual
release (and don't plan to do it here), but this PR will make it much
easier to implement it in the future.
I suggest deferring discussion of how actual releases should work till
the next PR.

.github/workflows/nightly.yml

@@ -103,50 +103,13 @@ jobs:
           ./clio_integration_tests --backend_host=scylladb
 
   nightly_release:
-    if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
     needs: run_tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    env:
-      GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          path: nightly_release
-          pattern: clio_server_*
-
-      - name: Prepare files
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          cp ${{ github.workspace }}/.github/workflows/nightly_notes.md "${RUNNER_TEMP}/nightly_notes.md"
-          cd nightly_release
-          echo '' >> "${RUNNER_TEMP}/nightly_notes.md"
-          echo '```' >> "${RUNNER_TEMP}/nightly_notes.md"
-          for d in $(ls); do
-            archive_name=$(ls $d)
-            mv ${d}/${archive_name} ./
-            rm -r $d
-            sha256sum ./$archive_name > ./${archive_name}.sha256sum
-            cat ./$archive_name.sha256sum >> "${RUNNER_TEMP}/nightly_notes.md"
-          done
-          echo '```' >> "${RUNNER_TEMP}/nightly_notes.md"
-
-      - name: Remove current nightly release and nightly tag
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          gh release delete nightly --yes || true
-          git push origin :nightly || true
-
-      - name: Publish nightly release
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          gh release create nightly --prerelease --title "Clio development (nightly) build" \
-            --target $GITHUB_SHA --notes-file "${RUNNER_TEMP}/nightly_notes.md" \
-            ./nightly_release/clio_server*
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/release_impl.yml
+    with:
+      overwrite_release: true
+      title: "Clio development (nightly) build"
+      version: nightly
+      notes_header_file: nightly_notes.md
 
   build_and_publish_docker_image:
     uses: ./.github/workflows/build_clio_docker_image.yml

.github/workflows/release_impl.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+name: Make release
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      overwrite_release:
+        description: "Overwrite the current release and tag"
+        required: true
+        type: boolean
+
+      title:
+        description: "Release title"
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+      version:
+        description: "Release version"
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+      notes_header_file:
+        description: "Release notes header file"
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          path: release_artifacts
+          pattern: clio_server_*
+
+      - name: Prepare files
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: release_artifacts
+        run: |
+          cp ${{ github.workspace }}/.github/workflows/${{ inputs.notes_header_file }} "${RUNNER_TEMP}/release_notes.md"
+          echo '' >> "${RUNNER_TEMP}/release_notes.md"
+          echo '```' >> "${RUNNER_TEMP}/release_notes.md"
+
+          for d in $(ls); do
+            archive_name=$(ls $d)
+            mv ${d}/${archive_name} ./
+            rm -r $d
+            sha256sum ./$archive_name > ./${archive_name}.sha256sum
+            cat ./$archive_name.sha256sum >> "${RUNNER_TEMP}/release_notes.md"
+          done
+
+          echo '```' >> "${RUNNER_TEMP}/release_notes.md"
+
+      - name: Remove current release and tag
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' && inputs.overwrite_release }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          gh release delete ${{ inputs.version }} --yes || true
+          git push origin :${{ inputs.version }} || true
+
+      - name: Publish release
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          gh release create ${{ inputs.version }} \
+            ${{ inputs.overwrite_release && '--prerelease' || '' }} \
+            --title ${{ inputs.title }} \
+            --target $GITHUB_SHA \
+            --notes-file "${RUNNER_TEMP}/release_notes.md" \
+            ./release_artifacts/clio_server*