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+
+name: Build and Upload Archives upon Creating Tags
+
+# Run this workflow every time a tag is created/pushed
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '*'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    # Name the Job
+    name: Build tagged commit and upload an archive
+    # Set the type of machine to run on
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      # Checks out a copy of your repository on the ubuntu-latest machine
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          # bring in all history because the gradle versions plugin needs to "walk back" to the closest ancestor tag
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Set up JDK 1.8
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+        with:
+          java-version: 1.8
+      - name: Set up release version env variable
+        run: |
+          echo "RELEASE_VERSION=${GITHUB_REF#refs/*/}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Verify the release version
+        run: |
+          echo "Release version: ${{ env.RELEASE_VERSION }}"
+      - name: Build with Gradle and run all tests
+        # exclude the streams test and connect test
+        run: ./gradlew cleanTest :clients:test :core:test --no-daemon -PxmlFindBugsReport=true -PtestLoggingEvents=started,passed,skipped,failed
+      - name: Upload archive
+        run: |
+          # TODO: uncomment the below command which uploads the archive once we have verified below things:
+          #       1. This workflow gets triggered upon tag creation/push
+          #       2. The release version (${{ env.RELEASE_VERSION }}) is extracted and printed in the console correctly
+          #       3. Disable the uploading archive feature in Travis. Otherwise, both Travis and Github Action will
+          #          try to upload the same archive
+          # ./gradlew -Pversion=${{ env.RELEASE_VERSION }} :clients:uploadArchives :core:uploadArchives --no-daemon