ci: Schedule creation of minor and patch PRs (#27199)

.github/workflows/create-patch-release-branch.yml

@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-name: Create Branch For Patch Release
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      commit_shas:
-        description: 'Comma-separated commit SHAs'
-        required: true
-      old_version:
-        description: 'Old version to be patched'
-        required: true
-        default: '1.0.0'
-      new_version:
-        description: 'The new patch version'
-        required: true
-        default: '1.0.1'
-      resumeUrl:
-        description: 'n8n workflow resume URL'
-        required: true
-jobs:
-  create-branch:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Validate inputs
-        run: |
-          if ! [[ "${{ inputs.old_version }}" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[0-9A-Za-z]+(\.[0-9A-Za-z]+)*)?$ ]]; then
-            echo "Invalid old version format: ${{ inputs.old_version }}"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          if ! [[ "${{ inputs.new_version }}" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[0-9A-Za-z]+(\.[0-9A-Za-z]+)*)?$ ]]; then
-            echo "Invalid new version format: ${{ inputs.new_version }}"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-      - name: Notify if inputs are invalid
-        if: ${{ failure() }}
-        run: |
-          curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "success": false, "message": "The old or new version you provided is invalid, make sure they both follow the SemVer format" }' ${{ inputs.resumeUrl }}
-          exit 1
-      - name: Setup, cherry-pick and push branch
-        run: |
-          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
-          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
-          git switch "n8n@${{ inputs.old_version }}" --detach
-          BRANCH="patch/${{ inputs.new_version }}"
-          git checkout -b "$BRANCH"
-          IFS=',' read -ra SHAS <<< "${{ inputs.commit_shas }}"
-          for sha in "${SHAS[@]}"; do
-            sha=$(echo "$sha" | xargs)
-            if ! git merge-base --is-ancestor "$sha" HEAD; then
-              echo "Cherry-picking commit $sha"
-              git cherry-pick "$sha"
-            else
-              echo "Commit $sha is already in the branch, skipping"
-            fi
-          done
-          git push -f origin "$BRANCH"
-      - name: Notify if cherry-pick is successful
-        if: ${{ success() }}
-        run: |
-          curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "success": true }' ${{ inputs.resumeUrl }}
-      - name: Notify if cherry-pick is not successful
-        if: ${{ failure() }}
-        run: |
-          curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "success": false, "message": "There was a conflict when trying to create the branch, please do the cherry-pick and resolve the conflicts manually or do not include the PRs that caused the conflict" }' ${{ inputs.resumeUrl }}

.github/workflows/release-create-minor-pr.yml

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ name: 'Release: Create Minor Release PR'
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
-  # schedule:
-  #   - cron: 0 13 * * 1
+  schedule:
+    - cron: 0 13 * * 1 # 2pm CET (UTC+1), Monday
 
 jobs:
   create-release-pr:
@@ -13,3 +13,18 @@ jobs:
     with:
       base-branch: master
       release-type: minor
+
+  notify-slack:
+    name: Notify Slack
+    needs: [create-release-pr]
+    if: needs.create-release-pr.result == 'success' && needs.create-release-pr.outputs.pull-request-number != ''
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Post to Slack
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@91efab103c0de0a537f72a35f6b8cda0ee76bf0a # v2.1.1
+        with:
+          method: chat.postMessage
+          token: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_HELPER_SLACK_TOKEN }}
+          payload: |
+            channel: C036AELNMV0
+            text: ":rocket: Minor release PR created. <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/pull/${{ needs.create-release-pr.outputs.pull-request-number }}|View PR> — close it to cancel the release."

.github/workflows/release-create-patch-pr.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ name: 'Release: Create Patch Release PR'
 run-name: 'Release: Create Patch Release PR for track ${{ inputs.track }}'
 
 on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      track:
+        description: 'Release Track'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       track:
@@ -53,3 +60,18 @@ jobs:
     with:
       base-branch: ${{ needs.determine-version-info.outputs.release_candidate_branch }}
       release-type: patch
+
+  notify-slack:
+    name: Notify Slack
+    needs: [create-release-pr]
+    if: needs.create-release-pr.result == 'success' && needs.create-release-pr.outputs.pull-request-number != ''
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Post to Slack
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@91efab103c0de0a537f72a35f6b8cda0ee76bf0a # v2.1.1
+        with:
+          method: chat.postMessage
+          token: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_HELPER_SLACK_TOKEN }}
+          payload: |
+            channel: C036AELNMV0
+            text: ":rocket: Patch release PR created for *${{ inputs.track }}* track. <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/pull/${{ needs.create-release-pr.outputs.pull-request-number }}|View PR> — close it to cancel the release."

.github/workflows/release-create-pr.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ on:
         required: true
         type: string
 
+    outputs:
+      pull-request-number:
+        description: 'Number of the created pull request'
+        value: ${{ jobs.create-release-pr.outputs.pull-request-number }}
+
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       base-branch:

.github/workflows/release-schedule-patch-prs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+name: 'Release: Schedule Patch Release PRs'
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 8 * * 2-5' # 9am CET (UTC+1), Tuesday–Friday
+
+jobs:
+  create-patch-prs:
+    name: Create patch release PR (${{ matrix.track }})
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        track: [stable, beta, v1]
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/release-create-patch-pr.yml
+    secrets: inherit
+    with:
+      track: ${{ matrix.track }}