Publish to a distribution branch about typescript-action

[ncalteen]

Hello! Apologies for the delay in responding to this issue. I am working on updating this repository, including clarifying the instructions in the README. You can check out #732 for the proposed README and other changes!

Regarding your questions, a few comments below:

• When releasing GitHub Actions, developers can use your action by referencing it by commit SHA, branch, or tag. Any of the following would work, for example:

  - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3 # tag
  - uses: actions/upload-artifact@main # branch
  - uses: actions/upload-artifact@0b7f8abb1508181956e8e162db84b466c27e18ce # sha

• Currently this repository does not enforce or propose a release strategy. Since many teams can do it different ways, we purposefully left that open for customization :)

• The transpiled action code should always be updated in dist on every push to main (or PR targeting main). There is a workflow in this repo that checks specifically if that has been done.

• We are using branches, yes, but are following GitHub flow. In GitHub flow, branches are not kept long-term. Once a feature is developed and the PR is approved/merged, the branch is deleted and the merge commit is tagged with an appropriate release version (e.g. v1.0.0). However, this is one of many valid strategies for managing releases.

If there are other questions we can help out with, please feel free to reopen and reply!