A GitHub Action that generates documentation for a Pony library and updates that documentation to main.actor. The library in question must have a Makefile with a target docs that can be used to generate the documentation.

In release.yaml, in addition the usual release-bot-action workflow entries.

name: Release

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - \d+.\d+.\d+

jobs:
  generate-documentation:
    name: Generate documentation for release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - name: Generate documentation and upload
        uses: ponylang/[email protected]
        with:
          library_name: "MYLIBRARY"
          docs_build_dir: "build/MY-LIBRARY-docs"
          git_user_name: "Ponylang Main Bot"
          git_user_email: "[email protected]"
        env:
          RELEASE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}

N.B. The environment variable RELEASE_TOKEN that is required by each step must be a personal access token with at least public_repo access. You can not use the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable provided by GitHub's action environment. If you try to use GITHUB_TOKEN, the action will fail.

Any user or organization that intends to use this action must have set up a fork of the ponylang/main.actor-package-markdown repository.

So for example, if your GitHub user name is JeannieQPublic, then there needs to be a fork of main.actor-package-markdown at JeannieQPublic/main.actor-package-markdown.

The personal access token user in the workflow configuration as RELEASE_TOKEN must have at least public_repo access to the main.actor-package-markdown fork.