This repository provides a GitHub action to publish Wiki pages with a provided markdown into the Wiki section of your GitHub repository.

Table of Contents

• Common usage
• Breaking change
• Use Github action
  • Settings for v1.0.0+ release (deprecated)
  • Settings for v2.0.0+ release
  • Environment Variables options
• Full Example (with additional actions to generate content)
  • Using v1.0.0+
  • Using v2.0.0+
• Credits

The action requires some content markdown/wiki pages that must be generated on a previous step, and located into a specific folder.
This action scans the folder, adds its files, and finally publishes them to the wiki.

Starting from August 2019, GitHub team switch Actions syntax from HCL to YAML.
The previous syntax will no longer be supported by GitHub on September 30, 2019.

As a consequence, please use v2.0.0+ release and note that all v1.x.x are deprecated and will no longer work on September 30, 2019.

Please note that this action requires your repo to already own at least one page in the wiki section: https://github.com/:yourOrganization/:yourRepository/wiki

To use this action simply add it to your main.workflow file.

action "wiki-page-creator-action" {
  uses = "docker://decathlon/wiki-page-creator-action:1.0.0"
  needs = ["Create Release Notes"]
  secrets = [
    "GH_PAT",
  ]
  env = {
    ACTION_MAIL = "[email protected]"
    ACTION_NAME = "myusername"
    OWNER = "yourGitHubOrganisation"
    REPO_NAME = "yourGitHubRepository"
  }
}

- name: Upload Release Notes to Wiki
  uses: docker://decathlon/wiki-page-creator-action:2.0.0
  env:
    GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
    ACTION_MAIL: [email protected]
    ACTION_NAME: yourusername
    OWNER: yourGitHubOrganisation
    REPO_NAME: yourGitHubRepository

To be able to push the new Wiki Page, the action requires some environment variables/secrets:

• GH_PAT: (required) GitHub Private Access Token used for the clone/push operations. The token is used for security reasons, instead of the username/password, and because is the only way to access to repositories for organizations using SSO. You can click here to generate this token.

• ACTION_MAIL: (required) email used to push new wiki pages into the target repository

• ACTION_NAME: (required) username to use in the push command

• OWNER: (required) repository owner name.

• REPO_NAME: (required) repository name where you want to upload the wiki page to.

• MD_FOLDER: (optional - default is the current folder) folder to scan for markdown files

• SKIP_MD: (optional - all files will be processed) comma separated list of files to skip during the analysis (files you don't want to publish)

• WIKI_PUSH_MESSAGE: (optional - sample message will use instead) Custom push message for your wiki pages.

The following one is the workflow we are using to push the release notes to our project wikis.

In this example the workflow is started on milestone; the first action is filtering on the closed action of the milestone (if milestone is created, renamed, ... the other steps are skipped).

The create-release-notes-action creates the markdown file (check here if your need more information). The output file is stored into the temp_release_notes.

The wiki-page-creator-action takes all the markdown files from the temp_release_notes folder (skipping a README.md file if found) and uploads them to the provided wiki repo.

workflow "Sprint Closure" {
  on = "milestone"
  resolves = ["Upload Release Notes on Wiki"]
}

action "action-filter" {
  uses = "actions/bin/filter@master"
  args = "action closed"
}

action "Create Release Notes" {
  uses = "docker://decathlon/release-notes-generator-action:1.0.0"
  secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN"]
  needs = ["action-filter"]
  env = {
    USE_MILESTONE_TITLE = "true"
    OUTPUT_FOLDER = "temp_release_notes"
  }
}

action "Upload Release Notes on Wiki" {
  uses = "docker://decathlon/wiki-page-creator-action:1.0.0"
  needs = ["Create Release Notes"]
  secrets = [
    "GH_PAT",
  ]
  env = {
    ACTION_MAIL = "[email protected]"
    ACTION_NAME = "myPushingUser"
    OWNER = "yourGitHubOrganisation"
    REPO_NAME = "yourGitHubRepository"
    SKIP_MD = "README.md"
    MD_FOLDER = "temp_release_notes"
  }
}

on: 
  milestone:
    types: [closed]
name: Milestone Closure
jobs:
  release-notes:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: Create Release Notes
      uses: docker://decathlon/release-notes-generator-action:2.0.0
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        OUTPUT_FOLDER: temp_release_notes
        USE_MILESTONE_TITLE: "true"
    - name: Upload Release Notes to Wiki
      uses: docker://decathlon/wiki-page-creator-action:latest
      env:
        ACTION_MAIL: [email protected]
        ACTION_NAME: myPushingUser
        GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
        MD_FOLDER: temp_release_notes
        OWNER: yourGitHubOrganisation
        REPO_NAME: yourGitHubRepository
        SKIP_MD: README.md

The code of this actions began on mmornati github workspace.