Merge branch 'main' into release/2.8.2

.github/workflows/release-generate-notes.yml

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ jobs:
 
     # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
     steps:
+
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       # Generate github release notes
       - name: Generate release notes
@@ -36,4 +37,4 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # Commit and push
           git commit -am "Update release notes"
-          git push
+          git push

.github/workflows/release-start.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# This is a basic workflow that is manually triggered
+
+name: Release start
+
+# Controls when the action will run. Workflow runs when manually triggered using the UI
+# or API.
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    # Inputs the workflow accepts.
+    inputs:
+      base_branch: 
+        description: 'Base branch'
+        required: true
+        default: 'develop'
+        type: string
+      version_name:
+        description: 'Release version name'
+        # default: 'World'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
+jobs:
+  create_branch:
+    # The type of runner that the job will run on
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    # override vName with new version
+    - name: Checkout base branch
+      run: git checkout ${{ inputs.base_branch }}
+    - name: Create release branch
+      run: git checkout -b release/${{ inputs.version_name }}
+    - name: Push
+      run: git push origin release/${{ inputs.version_name }}