From dbd1b5d4cee473fa65f6acf9a3667d6615001074 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonin Bas <abas@vmware.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 13:18:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Create releases automatically when VERSION is updated (#4)

Signed-off-by: Antonin Bas <abas@vmware.com>
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 CONTRIBUTING.md               |  7 +++++++
 VERSION                       |  1 +
 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/release.yml
 create mode 100644 VERSION

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0286fc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: Release
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths:
+      - 'VERSION'
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
+    steps:
+    - name: Check-out code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Read version
+      run: |
+        echo "version=$(head VERSION)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: Create release
+      uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+      with:
+        omitBody: true
+        token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+        tag: "${{ env.version }}"
+        commit: "${{ env.GITHUB_SHA }}"
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 036d175..c29c63e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Thank you for taking the time out to contribute to project Antrea!
 
 ## Contribute
 
+### Versioning
+
+This project follows the [semantic versioning
+specification](https://semver.org/). A new Github release is created
+automatically whenever a commit is pushed to the "main" branch which modifies
+the `VERSION` file.
+
 ### Inclusive Naming
 
 For symbol names and documentation, do not introduce new usage of harmful
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b82608c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+v0.1.0