Trigger major-tag move on release publish, not tag push - #9
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Tag pushes never raised a workflow run in this repo (issue #7): three tag pushes today, including a probe tag, produced zero runs of this workflow, while pushes to main triggered verify in the same session. Switch the trigger to release: published. A release is what actually happens when we cut one, and the event fires reliably. Pull the tag name from the release payload instead of the ref, and skip prereleases so a release candidate cannot move the major tag. The probe tag v0.0.1-triggertest is deleted from the remote as part of this cleanup; it was not a real release.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release workflow now starts when a release is published. It reads the release tag and prerelease status from the event. It skips major-tag updates for prereleases and retains the existing stable-version and concurrency behavior. ChangesRelease workflow
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In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Around line 7-8: Update the release workflow trigger to include the released
event alongside published, so promotions from prereleases invoke the workflow
while preserving the existing release handling and guard behavior.
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CodeRabbit flagged that published alone misses a prerelease being promoted to a full release: GitHub fires released for that transition, not published, and the prerelease guard only matters for a direct publish. Add released to the trigger types. A plain stable publish now fires both published and released, but the concurrency group serialises the two runs and the job always points the major tag at the greatest stable tag in the series rather than the triggering one, so the second run is a harmless no-op.
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Holding on this PR. GitHub Actions had a major outage starting 2026-08-26T15:11 UTC (githubstatus.com: Actions major_outage, Pages degraded), and every probe behind the "tag pushes do not trigger this workflow" diagnosis ran inside or right before that window: the v1.0.2 push at 15:01, the forced v1 push a few minutes later, and the v0.0.1-triggertest probe at ~15:16. Queued-and-never-started runs and startup_failure results are what this outage looks like elsewhere in the org right now (this PR's own To be precise about what is and is not established: the workflow has still never produced a run, on any of the tag pushes so far. That fact stands. What no longer stands, until re-checked outside an outage window, is the conclusion that the tag-push trigger itself is broken. Not merging this. The probe tag v0.0.1-triggertest is restored on the remote (it had been deleted as cleanup before this was raised) so it's available for a clean re-probe once Actions is confirmed healthy. The |
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Closing: the trigger was never broken. A clean re-probe after the Actions outage cleared settles it. Cutting v1.0.3 pushed the tag at 17:10 UTC. The What produced the original diagnosis: every earlier probe landed inside the GitHub Actions incident opened at 15:11 UTC. The v0.0.1-triggertest push did create a run, id 32984585210, but the job was never acquired by a runner and the run ends with no steps and a null job conclusion. That is the outage signature, not a trigger fault. The v1.0.2 push a few minutes earlier produced no run at all, also inside the degraded window. One thing this PR raised is real but does not apply here: CodeRabbit pointed out that a prerelease promoted to stable emits The probe tag is deleted. |
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Closes #7
release.ymlwas never running:push: tags: v*never triggered it. Threetag pushes today (v1.0.2, a forced v1, and a probe tag) all created the ref
but produced zero workflow runs, while pushes to
mainin the same sessiontriggered
verifyfine. Something about the tag-push event is not raisingruns in this repo.
Switches the trigger to
release: publishedinstead, since a release iswhat actually happens here and the event fires reliably. The tag name now
comes from
github.event.release.tag_name, and a prerelease is skipped soa release candidate cannot move the major tag. The semver check, the
"point at the newest stable tag in the series" logic, the concurrency
group, and the job permissions are unchanged.
This could not be verified by re-running the workflow, because the trigger
itself was the bug -- there is no tag-push run to point at as proof. The
real proof is the next release publishing and the major tag moving on its
own.
Also deletes the probe tag
v0.0.1-triggertestfrom the remote ascleanup; it was not a real release.
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