piplock-renewal-2023a.yml

# This GitHub action is meant to be triggered weekly in order to update the pipfile.locks 

name: Weekly Pipfile.locks renewal on [2023a] branch

on:
 # Triggers the workflow every Monday at 22pm UTC am 0 22 * * 1
 schedule:
   - cron: "0 22 * * 1"
 workflow_dispatch:  # for manual trigger workflow from GH Web UI
 
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     
    permissions:
      # Give the default GITHUB_TOKEN write permission to commit and push the
      # added or changed files to the repository.
      contents: write

    steps:
      # Checkout the paricular branch
      - name: Checkout code from the release branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: 2023a
          token: ${{ secrets.GH_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

      # Setup Python environment
      - name: Setup Python environment
        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: |
            3.8
            3.9
      - name: Install pipenv
        run: pip install pipenv

      # Runs the makefile recipe `refresh-pipfilelock-files` and push the chances back to the branch
      - name: Run make refresh-pipfilelock-files and push the chances back to the branch
        run: |
          make refresh-pipfilelock-files
          git config --global user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
          git config --global user.name "GitHub Actions"
          git add .
          git commit -m "Update the pipfile.lock via the weekly workflow action"
          git push