When we want to do a new release, push a git tag with format v** and workflow releases.yml executes.

This workflow internally uses go-releaser to push a new release.

Please follow the below detailed steps.

• Create a tag in format v202205240715

git tag -a `date "+v%Y%m%d%H%M"` -m "Release a new version"

• Get the tag name

git tag

• Push the newly created tag

git push origin <tag>

• Check that workflow releases.yml was triggered
• Once completed, go to repo releases page and edit the newly created release as pre-release, so we can do sanity testing before we officially release
• Recommend to do basic sanity testing (see below) on the new release.
• Once sanity testing is done, we can edit the release and mark it as Latest version and edit the release notes.

1. Access to a GHES test server
2. Create a PAT token with site-admin scope in the GHES environment for ghe-admin

1. Update below Repository level secrets:

   • sanity_test_site_admin_token: The PAT generated earlier
   • sanity_test_ghes_url: The URL to the GHES instance
   • sanity_test_releasedatetime: The tag datetime string for the release to test without the v (e.g. 202211070205)

2. Manually trigger this workflow: https://github.com/actions/actions-sync/actions/workflows/actions-sync-e2e-test-caller.yml