Create a common function to write resulting JSON files to the releases directory.
It makes this task simpler to read and maintain, while making it modifiable at a central point in the future.
One example of such modification could be the sorting of the versions in a uniform way for all the scripts.
Generic scripts are scripts that handle multiple product based on some identifier (URL, coordinates...).
This creates a common function to list and load product configurations for those scripts.
It makes them simpler to read and maintain, while making the way they work much more consistent.
This script is using the GitHub CLI with the GraphQL API in order to retrieve releases. The reasons are:
- using 'gh release list' does not return all the releases
- using the API, directly or via GitHub CLI, is slow, produces a lot of 502 errors, and is harder due to pagination.
- using the GraphQL API directly is hard due to pagination.
- using a library, such as graphql-python, is sightly harder than using the GitHub CLI (and still requires a GITHUB_TOKEN).
Access to the GitHub token is required when using GitHub CLI, hence the update.yml workflow update.
