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Identify the best practices for distributing custom actions

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Identify the best practices for distributing custom actions

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- [Instructor] Again, GitHub wants us to know how to be the best possible GitHub citizens, and I think that's a great thing because frankly, I'm a huge follower of GitHub and the smart way that they engineer. GitHub recommends for your custom actions that you adopt what's called semantic versioning, and we've seen that, vX.Y.Z, for both clarity and stability. Also, you're required to create a read me to accompany your public action before GitHub will list it in the marketplace. Licensing, this is one of those things that's always been on my to-do list is to read the fine print on the MIT license. But if you're adopting an open source license, you know that that can be done at any point in time in a GitHub repo's lifecycle. Little bit more on semantic versioning because you'll certainly see it on your GitHub Action Certification Exam. We know that actions use the syntax owner/action name, which is really the name of the project folder in the repo @ vX.Y.Z. Now, the word semantic refers…

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