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ci: make a release a shipment rather than a merge
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
2026-08-18 22:25:11 -04:00

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# Changelog
The changelog is the releases page:
<https://git.ljones.me/yonlu/yellowjacket/releases>
Every release there is generated from the Conventional Commits it
contains, by `.gitea/workflows/release.yml`. Each one carries its notes
as its body, grouped by change type, with a link to the commit behind
every line.
That workflow is **run by hand**, so a release holds everything merged
since the last one rather than one PR's worth. It used to fire on every
push to `main`, which made a version per merged PR (issue #115).
**This file is not generated and is not a copy of that.** `main` is a
protected branch, so nothing pushes a changelog commit back to it — and a
file that claimed to be a changelog while silently never updating would
be worse than no file at all. `make release-dry` prints what a release
run would cut right now, and the workflow's own `dry_run` input answers
the same question from CI.
History before `v0.0.1` is in `git log`. The versions before it were cut
by hand and are not on the releases page; the entries this file used to
hold were generated against a GitHub remote this project no longer has,
and every link in them was dead.