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I'm currently using the Release Drafter workflow that creates a draft release whenever a PR is merged into the develop branch (staging). This creates a great draft but now I'm wanting to have it get published when develop is merged into master. When that takes place I need to update the release name and tag before publishing. Then send out a notification in our slack engineering channel.

What I can do:

• Setup the action on push into master.
• Get the latest draft release and then use that id as a ref.
• Publish using eregon/publish-release action.
• Send the slack message

What I missing:

• An Action that I can pass the release id and update the tag and name.

The name and tag will be the current date %Y.%m%.d-%H:%M

Here is the action YML I have created so far

We currently have a GitHub repository where our master branch is protected for everyone except admins, who are able to commit and push directly to the branch without first opening a pull request. We're looking to find a way to send a Slack notification anytime an admin commits directly to master in order to call attention to the fact that there was an override of the branch protections. This may happen intentionally due to extreme circumstances or, worst case, by mistake (which will need to be addressed).

This seems like it'd be possible with a combination of the GitHub Slack action, the if key on the job/step definition, and ideally some piece of information from the push event JSON.

The last part is where I'm stuck: I don't see an obvious way to use the data contained in the push event to differentiate between one-off commits that would violate our branch protection policy and a normal/compliant pull request.

Does anyone have any ideas as to whether or not this is possible? Perhaps there's another event that I should be attaching this workflow to that would give me the information I'd need to tell the difference and launch the Slack notification?