From 5f70263c0e12d5c7430d87027c354b4d1cb0e863 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Mulhall <35538242+rem1776@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:33:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Create release.yaml

---
 .github/workflows/release.yaml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/release.yaml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..61abbf07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name: Create Release files and tag
+on: push
+  #push:
+  #  tags:
+  #    - 20*.* # TODO update this in 75 years
+  #    - 20*.*.*
+jobs:
+  create-release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: ghcr.io/noaa-gfdl/fre-nctools-ci-rocky-gnu:14.2.0_v2
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        submodules: recursive
+    - name: Configure
+      run: |
+        mkdir build && cd build
+        autoreconf -i ../configure.ac
+        ../configure
+    - name: Build and create distribution
+      run: |
+        make distcheck
+        make dist
+    - name: Upload to Release Action
+      uses: Shopify/upload-to-release@v2.0.0
+      with:
+        name: test-upload
+        path: build/fre-nctools-2024.05.tar.gz

From de913942e17ea65104d2fcd1614ba3b503e02fb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Mulhall <35538242+rem1776@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:59:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update release.yaml

---
 .github/workflows/release.yaml | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index 61abbf07..8820dfab 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-name: Create Release files and tag
-on: push
-  #push:
-  #  tags:
-  #    - 20*.* # TODO update this in 75 years
-  #    - 20*.*.*
+name: Create Release draft and upload dist
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - 20*.* # TODO update in 75 years
+      - 20*.*.*
+
 jobs:
-  create-release:
+  create-release-dist:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container:
       image: ghcr.io/noaa-gfdl/fre-nctools-ci-rocky-gnu:14.2.0_v2
@@ -21,10 +22,13 @@ jobs:
         ../configure
     - name: Build and create distribution
       run: |
+        cd build
         make distcheck
         make dist
-    - name: Upload to Release Action
-      uses: Shopify/upload-to-release@v2.0.0
+    - name: Create release draft and upload dist files
+      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
       with:
-        name: test-upload
-        path: build/fre-nctools-2024.05.tar.gz
+        files: |
+          build/fre-nctools-*.*.tar.gz
+          build/fre-nctools-*.*.*.tar.gz
+        draft: True