Implementation of GHA

[PhilippSchmelter]

This pull request introduces a continuous integration (CI) workflow using GitHub Actions and adds scripts to enforce branch naming conventions and handle semantic versioning. The most important changes include setting up the CI workflow, adding a script to check branch names, and registering tasks for semantic versioning.

CI Workflow Setup:

• .github/workflows/ci.yml: Added a CI workflow configuration that includes steps for checking out the source code, setting up Gradle and Java, building the project, running tests, generating Scala documentation, and deploying to Maven Central.

Branch Naming Convention:

• gradle/scripts/branchName.gradle: Added a Gradle script to check branch names against predefined patterns to ensure they follow the required naming conventions.

Semantic Versioning:

• gradle/scripts/semVer.gradle: Registered tasks for currentVersion and devVersion to print the current semantic version and the development version, respectively.

[sebastian-peter]

Looks good, let's try this out!

[sebastian-peter]

Hmm, looks like something can't handle java 17 (class file version 61)

[PhilippSchmelter]

Hmm, looks like something can't handle java 17 (class file version 61)

yes, this PR should probably still be a draft pr 😅

[PhilippSchmelter]

@sebastian-peter @danielfeismann
The pipeline fails in the “Version Check” step because it clones and executes the main branch, which still uses Gradle 7.0. That version is too old for Java 17 (at least Gradle 7.3 is required), causing the “Unsupported class file major version 61” error. To fix this, you need to update the Gradle Wrapper in main to a more recent version (e.g., Gradle 8.13) or create a new release since dev uses Gradle 8.5.

Took a while to figure this out :D

[sebastian-peter]

I updated the gradle version in main, but I think we also need the gradle version functionality there for this to work, right?

Edit: Nevermind, the functionality is there

[PhilippSchmelter]

I updated the gradle version in main, but I think we also need the gradle version functionality there for this to work, right?

Edit: Nevermind, the functionality is there

yes we need it :D

[sebastian-peter]

Could you reverse your changes then, so that this is as close as possible to the simona CI? Otherwise, people will wonder why there's differences at some point, although there's no reason

[sebastian-peter]

Thanks, let's give it a try!