FabledCurator/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml

name: Release

# A `v*` tag publishes a changelog. It does NOT build anything.
#
# Milestone 318 step 2 removed the tag trigger from build.yml: by the time
# anyone tags a commit, `main` has already built and published it, and a
# rebuild would re-push `:c-<sha>` — which rule 145 forbids even when the
# source matches, since image configs carry timestamps and "same source" does
# not mean "same manifest". That left the tag with no consequence at all.
#
# This is the consequence it has instead. Step 6 put the derived version in the
# Settings footer, so an operator can say WHICH build they are running; this
# says what is IN it that was not in the one they ran last month. Both halves
# of one question (note #3127 §5).
#
# Nothing here runs on a schedule and nothing auto-tags on merge. Release tags
# are bookmarks — cut one when you will want to point at that day by name,
# otherwise don't (note #3127 §0). FC went twelve weeks between v26.06.04.0 and
# the next one and nothing was wrong. A schedule would turn an optional
# bookmark back into ceremony, which is the thing this milestone is removing.
#
# Cutting the tag is an explicit operator action under rule 2 ("`main` — never
# without explicit request", which since 2026-08-28 covers PR, merge and tag
# alike). This lane only decides what happens once they do.
#
# Requires repo secret RELEASE_TOKEN with the `write:release` scope — the same
# PAT build.yml uses for the ext-<version> XPI asset cache.

on:
  push:
    tags: ['v*']
  # So a release body can be regenerated after the fact — the publisher PATCHes
  # an existing release rather than falling through on a conflict, so re-running
  # this on a tag rewrites the body instead of silently keeping the first one
  # (note #3127 §6.7).
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      tag:
        description: 'Tag to (re)publish notes for'
        required: true

jobs:
  changelog:
    runs-on: python-ci
    container:
      image: git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ci-python:3.14
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          # Load-bearing twice over: the previous release is found by walking
          # ancestry back through the tag graph, and the cross-check against
          # the derived web version calls artifacts.sh, which reads commit
          # times. A shallow clone would find no previous tag and emit the
          # entire history as the changelog — plausible-looking and wrong.
          fetch-depth: 0
          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag || github.ref }}

      # The `:c-<sha>` rollback refs are only real if `main` built this commit.
      # The script checks that against origin/main and downgrades the claim to
      # "unverified" when it cannot resolve one; fetching it here means that
      # downgrade stays an actual signal instead of firing on every release.
      - name: Make main's history resolvable
        run: git fetch --no-tags --quiet origin +main:refs/remotes/origin/main || true

      # TAG goes through the environment, not through `${{ }}` inside the
      # run block. The value is operator-supplied, and an expression expanded
      # into a shell line is expanded BEFORE the shell sees it — there is no
      # quoting that makes that safe. On a tag push it is empty and the script
      # falls back to GITHUB_REF.
      - name: Publish the derived changelog
        env:
          RELEASE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}
          TAG: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
        run: |
          set -eu
          if [ -n "${TAG:-}" ]; then
            python3 scripts/release_notes.py "$TAG"
          else
            python3 scripts/release_notes.py
          fi