Automate the PR creation for plugins-json repository

[abhi18av]

We need to modify the current release action so that upon release, the JSON file is used to eventually generate a PR for https://github.com/nextflow-io/plugins

[abhi18av]

@jhaezebr @tomiles , would you be able to help out with this one please?

It should speed up our delivery cycle for major releases.

[jagedn]

would be great to create a custom gh action to do it so can be reuse into other plugins

https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/automation/advanced/building-your-first-custom-github-action/

[abhi18av]

Hmm, good point. This is a good plugin specific utility and here's what I'm thinking

1. Publish this as a separate action (could be personal account 👍 )

2. Use it within nf-nomad (with out v-x.y.z-edge and v-x.y.z ) conventions

3. Finally submit PR for other the main template

What do you think?

[jagedn]

yes, agree, this is (ambitious) idea

[abhi18av]

[tomiles]

Yeah would be great, maybe it'd be a nice project for a hackathon, since this would be of wide interest outside of this project. Maybe something based on https://github.com/peter-evans/create-pull-request with some jq magic added.

[abhi18av]

Excellent idea @tomiles ! 💯