name: release # The release publisher (#96; box#83's design) — two ways in, one act (#111; # box#96's design): # # - Merging a `release`-labeled PR into main IS the release. The ceremony # PR carries the bumped version and the stamped changelog; the # maintainer's merge is the ship decision, and tagging after it is # transcription — exactly where humans err silently and machines fail # loudly. This path asserts four facts (each fail-loud, creating # nothing), then tags the merge commit and publishes. # - A bare X.Y.Z tag push (no 'v' prefix — box's and rig's tag scheme) # stays as the documented manual fallback and backfill. # # Both paths converge on the SAME steps below — one notes extraction, one # build, one asset name, one create — so they cannot drift. # # Where cast differs from its siblings: the release carries a PREBUILT # asset. box and rig are pure bash, so GitHub's source tarball for the tag # IS their package; cast's source tarball is not runnable — it needs npm ci # and tsc first. So the build happens ONCE, here, and the asset is the # runnable tree: bin/, dist/, production node_modules/, package.json. on: push: # Every tag, not a shape filter (box's and rig's precedent): a tag that # mismatches package.json — a habitual v0.1.0, a typo — must fail the # assert LOUDLY below, not be silently skipped by a pattern that didn't # match. tags: ["**"] pull_request: # The merge-is-the-release path (#111). `closed` is the only type that # can mean "merged"; the job gate below drops closed-unmerged and # unlabeled closures. types: [closed] branches: [main] permissions: contents: write # tag create via the API + gh release create jobs: release: # Tag pushes always enter (the asserts below are the filter). PR # closures enter only when the PR actually MERGED and carries the # hand-set `release` label (LABELS.md: `release` is the operator's — # automation never guesses intent). if: >- github.event_name == 'push' || (github.event.pull_request.merged == true && contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'release')) runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 with: # Tag push: the tag. Merged PR: the MERGE COMMIT on main — the # exact tree the maintainer shipped, which the tag created below # will name. ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.merge_commit_sha || github.ref }} - uses: actions/setup-node@v4 with: node-version: "22" cache: npm - name: "tag push: the tag must name package.json's version" if: github.event_name == 'push' run: | ver="$(node -p 'require("./package.json").version')" if [ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" != "$ver" ]; then echo "tag '$GITHUB_REF_NAME' does not match package.json version '$ver' — creating nothing." >&2 echo "A release is a PR, then a tag (#96): the release PR bumps package.json (and package-lock.json) and stamps the changelog; the tag goes on its MERGE commit. Delete this tag and re-tag the right commit." >&2 exit 1 fi echo "RELEASE_VERSION=$ver" >> "$GITHUB_ENV" # The decide step — the version asserts fused, because the `release` # label carries TWO legitimate meanings (LABELS.md: "release flow and # version/packaging work"): the ceremony PR that ships a version, and # ordinary work ON the release machinery — the PR that added this very # trigger included. The version tells them apart, in four states: # -dev, unchanged → work under the label: green NOTICE # no-op, not a red run per infra PR # -dev, changed → a bump that forgot to leave -dev: # half a ceremony, refuse # bare, unchanged, released → work merged in the post-release # window (ceremony landed, the -dev # bump has not — and cast's ENTIRE # pre-0.1.1 era, since 0.1.0 never # carried -dev): green NOTICE no-op # bare, unchanged, UNreleased→ the label says ship but this PR did # not mint the version: refuse to # guess. This is also the known # first-release edge (#111): the 0.1.0 # ceremony (#110) ships by manual tag, # the fallback path; the automation # applies from 0.1.1 on. # bare, changed → the ceremony: proceed - name: 'decide: ceremony, or release-flow work under the label?' id: decide if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' env: BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }} GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }} run: | # Versions read via node, never regex (the pkg_version discipline). ver="$(node -p 'require("./package.json").version')" git fetch --depth=1 origin "$BASE_SHA" git show "$BASE_SHA:package.json" > "$RUNNER_TEMP/base-package.json" base="$(node -p 'require(process.env.RUNNER_TEMP + "/base-package.json").version')" case "$ver" in *-dev) if [ "$base" = "$ver" ]; then echo "NOTICE: version '$ver' is -dev and unchanged by this PR — release-flow work under the release label, not a ceremony. Nothing to publish." echo "ceremony=no" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" exit 0 fi echo "version changed ('$base' -> '$ver') but is still -dev — half a ceremony; a release PR ships a bare X.Y.Z (CONTRIBUTING.md, Releasing) — creating nothing." >&2 exit 1 ;; esac if [ "$base" = "$ver" ]; then if gh release view "$ver" > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "NOTICE: version '$ver' is already released and unchanged by this PR — release-flow work merged in the post-release window (before the -dev bump). Nothing to publish." echo "ceremony=no" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" exit 0 fi echo "version '$ver' is bare, unchanged by this PR, and never released — the label says ship but this PR did not mint the version. Refusing to guess — creating nothing." >&2 echo "(If this PR was mislabeled, drop the label; if it was meant to release, it forgot the bump. The 0.1.0 first-release edge ships by manual tag — #111.)" >&2 exit 1 fi echo "ceremony=yes" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" echo "RELEASE_VERSION=$ver" >> "$GITHUB_ENV" - name: release notes — the version's own CHANGELOG.md section if: github.event_name == 'push' || steps.decide.outputs.ceremony == 'yes' # Assert 3 on the merge path, the same fact on the tag path: # release-notes.sh fails loudly on a missing/empty section, which # fails the release here — before anything is created. run: | bash .github/scripts/release-notes.sh "$RELEASE_VERSION" > "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.md" cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.md" - name: "merged release PR: nothing exists yet, then tag the merge commit" if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && steps.decide.outputs.ceremony == 'yes' env: GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }} MERGE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.merge_commit_sha }} run: | # Assert 4 — no tag and no release exist for this version. Re-runs # stay idempotent, and a manual race (an operator who tagged by # hand between merge and here) fails loudly instead of # double-publishing. if git ls-remote --exit-code origin "refs/tags/$RELEASE_VERSION" > /dev/null; then echo "tag '$RELEASE_VERSION' already exists — creating nothing (already released, or a manual tag won the race)." >&2 exit 1 fi if gh release view "$RELEASE_VERSION" > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "release '$RELEASE_VERSION' already exists — creating nothing." >&2 exit 1 fi # The act begins: tag the merge commit via the API. A tag created # with GITHUB_TOKEN does not trigger other workflows, so the # tag-push trigger above CANNOT fire on this tag and # double-publish — which is also why the publish must happen in # THIS job. gh api "repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/git/refs" \ -f "ref=refs/tags/$RELEASE_VERSION" -f "sha=$MERGE_SHA" - name: build the prebuilt dist asset if: github.event_name == 'push' || steps.decide.outputs.ceremony == 'yes' # Build ONCE, in CI — the whole point of the asset (#96): the # installer's release channels never run npm or tsc. Deliberately no # check/tests here: ci.yml already gated the merge commit this # release names, and the test suite needs `age`, which this runner # does not install. The staged tree is exactly what an install needs # to run. run: | npm ci npm run build npm prune --omit=dev mkdir -p "$RUNNER_TEMP/stage/cast-$RELEASE_VERSION" cp -R bin dist node_modules package.json "$RUNNER_TEMP/stage/cast-$RELEASE_VERSION/" tar -C "$RUNNER_TEMP/stage" -czf "$RUNNER_TEMP/cast-$RELEASE_VERSION.tgz" "cast-$RELEASE_VERSION" - name: create the release if: github.event_name == 'push' || steps.decide.outputs.ceremony == 'yes' env: GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }} run: | gh release create "$RELEASE_VERSION" --verify-tag \ --title "$RELEASE_VERSION" --notes-file "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.md" \ "$RUNNER_TEMP/cast-$RELEASE_VERSION.tgz"