How to use Go Release Binary GitHub Action - go

Question

Anyone able to get Go Release Binary GitHub Action working? which is supposed to
Automate publishing Go build artifacts for GitHub releases through GitHub Actions
The readme looks rather simple, but I've tried all my imaginations to get it working but not avail. Similar questions has been asked in its issue tracks but got no answer.
Somebody help please.
BTW, while searching for the answer, I came upon this commit logs, which is quite interesting/amusing to read. I.e., it seems to be quite a battle to get it working, but the author gave up eventually (no any releases from his/her latest commits/tags)
Conclusion:
Turns out that my project does not have go mod and there were issues in Go Release which stops it from working. It was then fixed by this and this.

Answer 1

I actually wrote my own release workflow for generating Go binaries.
The only non-obvious steps from my point of view are:
I have a release note generation step where I include a list of non-merge commits since the last release tag.
I use a matrix build for GOOS and GOARCH pairs and do some Bash string manipulation in the "Get OS and arch info" step.
The nice thing about softprops/action-gh-release is that you can keep adding artifacts to the same release as long as the workflow run is triggered by a push to the same tag.
on:
push:
# Sequence of patterns matched against refs/tags
tags:
- 'v*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10
name: Latest Release
defaults:
run:
shell: bash
jobs:
lint:
name: Lint files
runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- uses: actions/setup-go#v2
with:
go-version: '1.16.3'
- name: golangci-lint
uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action#v2.5.2
with:
version: latest
test:
name: Run tests
runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
needs: lint
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- uses: actions/setup-go#v2
with:
go-version: '1.16.3'
- run: go test -v -cover
release:
name: Create Release
runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
needs: test
strategy:
matrix:
# List of GOOS and GOARCH pairs from `go tool dist list`
goosarch:
- 'aix/ppc64'
# etc
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout#v2
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: actions/setup-go#v2
with:
go-version: '1.16.3'
- name: Get OS and arch info
run: |
GOOSARCH=${{matrix.goosarch}}
GOOS=${GOOSARCH%/*}
GOARCH=${GOOSARCH#*/}
BINARY_NAME=${{github.repository}}-$GOOS-$GOARCH
echo "BINARY_NAME=$BINARY_NAME" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "GOOS=$GOOS" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "GOARCH=$GOARCH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Build
run: |
go build -o "$BINARY_NAME" -v
- name: Release Notes
run:
git log $(git describe HEAD~ --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --pretty='format:* %h %s%n * %an <%ae>' --no-merges >> ".github/RELEASE-TEMPLATE.md"
- name: Release with Notes
uses: softprops/action-gh-release#v1
with:
body_path: ".github/RELEASE-TEMPLATE.md"
draft: true
files: ${{env.BINARY_NAME}}
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}