GitHub Action that automatically creates an issue with an overview of the commits that are waiting to be released. After a new release is published, the issue will be automatically closed.

name: notify-release
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  release:
    types: [published]
  schedule:
    - cron: '30 8 * * *'
jobs:
  setup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Notify release
        uses: nearform/github-action-notify-release@v1

Configure this action in your workflows providing the inputs described below in order to get notified in x time after the repo has been updated but no release has happened. It is possibile to snooze the notification issue for x time by closing it as not planned. Once the time has passed a new issue will be created.

Optional A GitHub token.

Optional The time after which unreleased commits should be considered stale and should notify for a release. The value can be a number or a string. Example: 1 minute. Default is 7 days.

Optional Limit the number of first x lines from commit messages that will be added in the issue description. No truncation when set to 0. Default is 1.