Accumulated updates for Github Action / python package usage

Author: rkdarst

README.md

@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ improved.
 
 
 
-## Example
+## Example deployments
 
 The CodeRefinery calendar
 * [Built calendar site](https://coderefinery.github.io/calendar/)
-  (main landing page for most projects)
+  (the auto-generated landing page)
 * [Source repository](https://github.com/coderefinery/calendar)
 * Optional: [Calendars inserted into
   website](https://coderefinery.org/calendars/) ([source](https://github.com/coderefinery/coderefinery.org/blob/main/content/calendars.md))

action.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# CC-0 (public domain)
+# but please link to the source so that people can more easily reuse
+# (if relevant)
+
+name: git-calendar
+description: Manage multiple branches in gh-pages
+
+inputs:
+  calendar_dir:
+    description: 'Input calendar directory'
+    default: 'calendars'
+  output_dir:
+    description: 'Output directory'
+    default: 'output'
+  extra_options:
+    description: extra options to git-calendar build
+    default: '-i out/index.html -b out/body.html'
+  text_timezones:
+    description: >
+      Extra options to be added to make txt files of
+      calendar contents.  Example: --timezone=Europe/Helsinki --timezone=Europe/Stockholm
+  pages_deploy:
+    description: "Deploy to GitHub pages.  Use only if you don't have another pages deployment.  Default: true."
+    default: true
+
+runs:
+  using: "composite"
+  steps:
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.x'
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        pip install https://github.com/coderefinery/git-calendar/archives/main.zip
+        pip install ${{ github.action_path }}
+    - name: build
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        git-calendar ${{ inputs.calendar_dir }}/*.yaml -o ${{ inputs.output_dir}} ${{ inputs.text_timezones}} --edit-link=https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY
+    - name: Upload artifact
+      uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
+      with:
+        path: ${{ inputs.output_dir }}
+    - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
+      uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4
+      if: ${{ inputs.pages_deploy }}:
+