I Automated Every Step of My Release Process With GitHub Action
You do the same things on every release. Tag the repo. Update the changelog. Notify the team. Open the deploy PR. Every time. By hand. Here's the GitHub Actions workflow that automates all of it — in under two minutes, zero clicks.
🔧 WHAT WE BUILD:
→ Push a tag → Claude generates release notes automatically
→ GitHub release created with one step
→ Slack notification fires on every release
→ Scheduled dependency updates (PR waiting every Monday)
→ Reusable workflows across every repo in your org
📁 Full workflow file + generate_notes.py script:
https://github.com/mttaylor/deployord...
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