3018 enhance version string check (#3022)

* enhance the release version string check

Signed-off-by: GitHub <[email protected]>

* update the releasing steps

Signed-off-by: GitHub <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Nic Ma <[email protected]>

Author: wyli

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -144,6 +144,17 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # get tag info for versioning
           mv _version.py monai/
+          # version checks
+          target="\"version\": \"$RELEASE_VERSION\""
+          echo $target
+          local=`grep "\"version\"" monai/_version.py
+          echo $local
+          if [ "$local" = "$target" ]; then
+            echo "matched version string"
+          else
+            echo "unmatched version string, please check the main branch"
+            exit 1
+          fi
           # remove flake package as it is not needed on hub.docker.com
           sed -i '/flake/d' requirements-dev.txt
           docker build -t projectmonai/monai:"$RELEASE_VERSION" -f Dockerfile .

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -289,9 +289,9 @@ When major features are ready for a milestone, to prepare for a new release:
   repository's artifacts (e.g. the file at https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/actions/runs/66570977).
 - Check the release test at [TestPyPI](https://test.pypi.org/project/monai/), download the artifacts when the CI finishes.
 - Optionally run [the cron testing jobs](https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/dev/.github/workflows/cron.yml) on `releasing/[version number]`.
+- Rebase `releasing/[version number]` to `main`, make sure all the test pipelines succeed.
 - Once the release candidate is verified, tag and push a milestone, for example, `git push origin 0.1.0`.
   The tag must be with the latest commit of `releasing/[version number]`.
-- Rebase `releasing/[version number]` to `main`, make sure all the test pipelines succeed.
 - Upload the packages to [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/monai/).
   This could be done manually by ``twine upload dist/*``, given the artifacts are unzipped to the folder ``dist/``.
 - Merge `releasing/[version number]` to `dev`, this step must make sure that the tagging commit unchanged on `dev`.