For the Ansible automated release process, we now have a new GitHub action in the ansible-documentation repository to create the Porting Guide pull request needed for Ansible Package Release.
This helps the release manager create the Porting Guide PR to the Ansible documentation repository from the Ansible build data release PR. The workflow creates a draft PR. The reviewers can mark the PR for ready to review. This marks the completion of automating the Ansible Release Process. This helps us to maintain the balance between automation and manual review.
The porting guide PR for the Ansible 12.0.0b1 release was generated via this new workflow.
In the future, we can enhance the workflow’s robustness by identifying failure points and safeguarding against them.