add workflow to update overview of available software #189
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For now, I've only listed
workflow_dispatch
as a trigger, which essentially means that triggering the creation of a PR will only happen when someone runs the workflow via https://github.com/EESSI/docs/blob/main/.github/workflows/update_available_software.yml .I prefer taking that approach initially, before we enable daily (or whatever) runs of this workflow to automatically get a PR opened when the overview of available software needs to be updated...
The token (available as GitHub Action environment secret in this repo as
EESSIBOT_GITHUB_TOKEN
) is currently valid until 4 Aug'24, we'll need to make sure it gets replaced regularly (out of abundance of care).Example of a pull request that is produced by this workflow (which was tweaked to use the
boegelbot
account and target my fork @boegel/EESSI-docs
: boegel#2