push tag event to write semver tags isn't triggered because tags are pushed using GITHUB_TOKEN

[syaghoubi00]

I'm using a GITHUB_TOKEN to do my releases and tagging, but this prevents the push tag event from being triggered when the release workflow pushes the tags. Since the push tag event isn't triggered, I am unable to create the proper metadata semver tags, even though the tags exist in the repo.

I'd appreciate any ideas on how to work around this. I did try using a PAT which does trigger workflows - however this came with some undesirable effects, such as, all release/tagging 'bot' activities would be authored by me (via the PAT), be unverified, and key management becomes painful when having to roll a RELEASE_PAT across all repos.

Desired workflow:

1. Tags are pushed by github-actions[bot] using GITHUB_TOKEN
2. Build workflow is triggered, and the docker/metadata-action detects the push tag event and adds the semver tags to the metadata.

Current workflow:

1. Tags are pushed by github-actions[bot] using GITHUB_TOKEN
2. push tag event isn't triggered, so no metadata creation etc.

I know this is kind of a limitation with GH itself, with bots being unable to trigger other workflows, but I'd appreciate any ideas.

I was thinking about using a type=raw and parsing the tags from the repo and setting that to a variable, then passing that variable into the raw tag, like type=raw,${{ env.MAJOR_VER }}, but this seemed very hacky, and I'm not sure if it would even work.