auto-publish.yml

# GitHub Actions Virtual Environments
# https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/

name: Auto-publish Newsletter

on:
# Uncomment for debugging to manually trigger workflow
#
#   workflow_dispatch:
#     inputs:
#       pull-request:
#         description: 'Pull request number'
#         required: true
  schedule:
    # Begin at 07:00am PST or 08:00am PDT every day.
    # Will keep checking every 30 minutes for 3 hours.
    # MailChimp is scheduled for 10:00am daily.

    # Cron runs in UTC
    # PST is UTC-8:00
    # Thus, UTC 15:00-8:00 == 7:00am PST
    # https://crontab.guru/#0,30_15-18_*_*_*
    - cron: "0,30 15-18 * * *"

jobs:
  main:
    name: Publish next issue
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: current datetime
        run: date

      # https://github.com/marketplace/actions/auto-merge-pull-request
      - name: auto-merge
        uses: reitermarkus/automerge@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          merge-method: squash
          squash-title: true
          required-labels: auto-publish
          # Uncomment for debugging to manually trigger workflow
          #
          # pull-request: ${{ github.event.inputs.pull-request }}
          # dry-run: true