Automation to update the Besu version

Introduced the workflow to run on demand to update the Besu version. Workflow will create the PR if the workflow job has the permission

Signed-off-by: Chaminda Divitotawela <[email protected]>

Author: cdivitotawela

.github/workflows/update-version.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+name: Update Version
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+        description: 'Besu version to be updated'
+      name:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+        description: 'Name of the author to be included in git commit signature'
+      email:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+        description: 'Email of the author to be included in git commit signature'
+
+jobs:
+  update:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
+
+      - name: Setup branch name
+        id: branch
+        run: |
+          echo "BRANCH=update-${{ inputs.version }}-${{ github.run_number }}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Update version
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name "${{ inputs.name }}"
+          git config --global user.email "${{ inputs.email }}"
+          git checkout -b $BRANCH
+          bash updateBesu.sh ${{ inputs.version }}
+          git status -s | grep " M " | grep -q besu.rb || {
+            echo "No changes found in the besu.rb"
+            exit 1
+          }
+          git add besu.rb
+          git commit -s -m "Update Besu version ${{ inputs.version }}"
+          git push origin $BRANCH
+        env: 
+          BRANCH: ${{ steps.branch.outputs.BRANCH }}
+        
+      - name: Create Pull Request [permission needed]
+        run: |
+          gh pr create --base main --title "Update Besu version ${{ inputs.version }}" --body "Besu version update to ${{ inputs.version }}" || {
+            echo "Action does not have permission to create PRs. Ignoring..."
+          }
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

README.md

@@ -24,3 +24,10 @@ To upgrade besu:
 brew tap hyperledger/besu
 brew upgrade besu
 ```
+
+## Version update workflow
+
+Use GitHub [workflow](.github/workflows/update-version.yml) to updated the version. Run the workflow to perform new
+release update. Workflow requires Besu version, name of the git author and the email of the aurther. If the workflow
+have permission to create pull requests, it will create the PR. If not user need to create the pull request using the
+created branch.