Replaces the local `pnpm release:{rc,patch,minor,major}` scripts with a
single manually-dispatched GitHub Actions workflow (`release-cut.yml`)
that takes `kind` (rc|stable), an optional `ref`, and an optional explicit
`version`.
Why: cutting releases locally was too easy to get wrong — `npm version
prerelease` behaves differently depending on whether the current version
is already an rc, there was no guard against tagging a dirty tree or an
off-main branch, and the "bad commit just landed, release the previous
one" case had no first-class answer. The new workflow:
- Resolves the next version automatically from GitHub Releases (or takes
an explicit override).
- Refuses to cut a stable release whose version isn't strictly greater
than the latest published stable. This is the only invariant
electron-updater needs within the `latest` channel.
- Only fast-forwards `main` with the version-bump commit when the caller
released the tip of `main`. Off-main releases publish only the tag, so
main is never polluted by a one-off RC against a feature branch.
CONTRIBUTING.md now documents the new flow with the common scenarios
(normal release, bad-commit-revert-to-previous-SHA, one-off RC, explicit
minor/major). The scheduled RC cron in release-rc.yml is untouched.
The e2e reusable workflow defaulted to github.ref, which on
pull_request events is refs/pull/N/merge. GitHub does not compute
that ref when the PR has conflicts or before the merge commit is
ready, causing actions/checkout to fail with "couldn't find remote
ref refs/pull/N/merge" for reasons unrelated to the code.
Pass github.event.pull_request.head.sha from pr.yml so e2e checks
out the PR head directly.
Motivating failure: https://github.com/stablyai/orca/actions/runs/24768962365
Seen on #937.
Wrap the dependency install and release-artifact publish steps with
nick-fields/retry@v3 so GitHub CDN 504s don't require a manual
re-run of the release workflow.
The default oxlint output buries filenames in multi-line blocks, making
CI errors like "File has too many lines" hard to diagnose. The github
format produces ::error annotations with file paths front and center.
Neil
Jinjing
Brennan Benson
Jinwoo Hong