release.yml fired on every push to main, so the trigger was "a PR was
merged" and nothing else decided. That is a version per unit of *work*
rather than per *shipment*: eight releases in twenty-two hours, v0.0.1
through v0.3.1, for one session -- each fanning out to four publishers on
a runner with capacity 1, so roughly forty packaging jobs shipped three
issues while ordinary PR CI queued behind them. pacman, Homebrew and
Obtainium see every one.
The push trigger is gone and workflow_dispatch, which was already there
and already worked, is the whole mechanism. Nothing else had to change to
batch releases, because semantic-release already reads every commit since
the last tag: five fixes and two feats become one minor release with all
seven in the notes. Release frequency was only ever how often this file
fired.
This is the rule index-artifact.yml states and is the other instance of:
a job that mutates state which cannot be rebuilt in ten minutes is
triggered deliberately, not by a push. A release here is a tag, a Gitea
release, an Arch package, a Homebrew formula, a signed APK and desktop
assets -- and an Android version going backwards costs the user their
library.
`dry_run` is what makes a manual trigger usable: the point of pulling a
lever by hand is being able to look first, so the input runs
semantic-release --dry-run -- the version and the notes, no tag, no
release, no publishers. Anything but the literal string "true" releases
for real, because a typo in a dispatch box must not silently turn a
shipment into a green no-op.
Two alternatives were considered and rejected, both recorded on the
issue. A `beta` integration branch relocates the trigger rather than
removing one: it needs a second protected branch carrying the same
required checks, and it *adds* a full check + e2e run per batch on the
very runner whose queue is the complaint. A schedule batches without
anyone having to remember, but puts the decision back on a timer, which
is the thing being removed.
Closes#115
The floor tag marks what has already been released, so tagging the
commit being pushed leaves nothing between the floor and HEAD --
semantic-release then correctly reports there is nothing to release.
That is what the first run did: it seeded v0.0.0 on the merge commit
itself and cut no release.
HEAD^ is the first parent, so on a merge commit it is main as it was
before the merge and everything the merge brought in is releasable.
The tag has been moved to 6fb7b5e by hand; this is so the next repo
never needs that.
main is protected (enable_push: false, empty whitelist), so
@semantic-release/git's commit-back is rejected by the pre-receive
hook -- and it would be rejected *after* the tag was pushed, leaving a
tagged release the run then reports as failed. Found by trying to push
this branch to main.
Whitelisting the CI user was the alternative and is declined: it
weakens a protection someone set deliberately and lets a bot push to
main without the checks every human PR has to pass.
So the release page is the changelog. The changelog plugin now writes a
gitignored .release-notes.md, which exists only to carry the notes into
gitea-release.sh without interpolating them into a shell command, and
CHANGELOG.md is a signpost -- a file claiming to be a changelog while
silently never updating is worse than no file.
Tags are not protected, so the tag push is unaffected.
semantic-release resolves the release branch and then pushes a commit
and a tag to it, so a local branch named main is a better starting
point than the --detach the other five workflows use. Still pinned to
the pushed commit rather than to whatever main points at by the time
the container starts.
The floor tag falls back to the PAT when GITEA_TOKEN is unset, which is
safe rather than merely convenient: all four publishers skip v0.0.0
explicitly, so the worst case is four jobs that start and immediately
say there is nothing to build.
CLAUDE.md said .releaserc.yml was a config nothing ran and that there
were five workflows; both stop being true with this branch. The CI
section now names release.yml as the entry point and records the four
things in it that are load-bearing, including the two silent failure
modes worth pinning against.
packaging/homebrew/README.md and docs/android-release.md say where a
user would actually look that upgrading from 1.x needs a reinstall --
Homebrew offers nothing silently, and Android refuses outright.
The config has been sitting in .releaserc.yml complete and uninvoked;
this is the workflow that runs it, and the one Gitea-shaped adaptation
it needs.
@semantic-release/github speaks GitHub's API, not Gitea's /api/v1, so
@semantic-release/exec calls scripts/gitea-release.sh instead. That
script reads the notes out of CHANGELOG.md rather than taking them as an
argument: release notes are rendered commit messages, so interpolating
the notes into a shell command would be an injection whose input is the
commit log.
The tag is pushed with a user PAT because Gitea does not start a
workflow from a ref pushed by a workflow's own token, and the three
publishing workflows are keyed on it.
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