Previous design: android.yml's release job and release.yml ran in
parallel on every tag push. release.yml polled the gitea release-
download URL for up to 15 min waiting for the APK to appear. In
practice the polling step was completing in 11s — either following a
gitea redirect to a 200 page and writing HTML into the bundled APK
file, or returning empty content silently. Either way the resulting
image shipped without a working APK and the web Settings page's
in-app-update section never rendered.
Fix the race architecturally:
- Move the signed-release-build + Attach-APK steps out of android.yml
and into a new android-release job in release.yml.
- release.yml's image-release job declares needs: [android-release],
so on tag pushes the image cannot start building until the APK is
guaranteed-attached.
- Pass the APK between jobs via actions/upload-artifact@v3 +
download-artifact@v3 (the v2 backend isn't supported on Gitea).
This removes the polling loop entirely — the image-release job just
downloads the artifact, renames to minstrel.apk, writes the
.version sidecar, and continues to docker buildx.
- For main pushes android-release is skipped via its if: condition.
image-release uses so it
still runs (the skipped predecessor doesn't poison the chain) and
the download/stage steps gate themselves on the tag context. Main
images ship without an APK by design, same as before.
android.yml is now testing-only: lint + detekt + unit tests on every
push, debug APK artifact on main. Independent of release CI as
requested.
bvandeusen