fix(ci): treat an unknown release state as pending, not as none - #290
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Carries the review outcome from the five sibling PRs back to py, which merged first. The guarded lookups read a failed call as nothing to release, release-pr gated fail-open on !cancelled(), and the per-PR jq had lost its merged_at check, which matters because closed-unmerged PRs keep a speculative merge_commit_sha.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release workflow now treats failed release lookups as unknown, accepts only merged release candidates, gates processing on confirmed state, and deduplicates comments for stuck releases. ChangesRelease detection reliability
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Release creation can proceed when pending-release status is unknown, risking duplicate Release PRs. Comment retries can also create duplicate stuck-release notices. Resolve these paths before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 140: Update the existing-comment lookup in the release workflow so a
failed gh api request is handled separately rather than converted to an empty
seen value. Emit a warning and skip posting the comment when the lookup fails,
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| # A warning annotation and a step summary are both only visible to someone who | ||
| # already opened the run. Tell the Release PR's subscribers once per stuck sha. | ||
| marker="<!-- release-stuck:${sha} -->" | ||
| seen="$(gh api "repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/issues/${num}/comments" --paginate --jq '.[].body' || echo "")" |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not treat a comment-list failure as an empty comment list.
If gh api .../comments fails, || echo "" makes seen empty. The marker check then posts a new comment. A rerun can create duplicate stuck-release comments for the same SHA.
Handle the API failure separately. Emit a warning and skip the comment when the existing-comment lookup fails.
Proposed fix
- seen="$(gh api "repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/issues/${num}/comments" --paginate --jq '.[].body' || echo "")"
- if ! printf '%s' "$seen" | grep -qF "$marker"; then
+ if ! seen="$(gh api "repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/issues/${num}/comments" --paginate --jq '.[].body')"; then
+ echo "::warning::Could not list comments on #${num}."
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In @.github/workflows/release.yml at line 140, Update the existing-comment
lookup in the release workflow so a failed gh api request is handled separately
rather than converted to an empty seen value. Emit a warning and skip posting
the comment when the lookup fails, while preserving the marker check and
comment-posting behavior for successful lookups.
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detect never checks the repository out, so gh pr comment had no git remote to infer the base repo from and would have failed behind its own || guard. Matches the fix already on the five sibling branches.
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🟠 Major · Block release creation after any candidate lookup failure. · release.yml:117-122
.github/workflows/release.yml:117-122
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winBlock release creation after any candidate lookup failure.
The loop continues after a failed candidate lookup. If a later candidate returns a SHA equal to
HEAD_SHA, the current condition skips thelookup_failedbranch, leavespending=false, setsready=true, and allows release creation despite incomplete detection.Check
lookup_failedbefore accepting any candidate SHA.Proposed fix
- if [ -z "$sha" ] && [ "$lookup_failed" = true ]; then + if [ "$lookup_failed" = true ]; then🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Around line 117-122: Update the candidate evaluation condition in the
release-detection loop to check lookup_failed before accepting any candidate
SHA, including one equal to HEAD_SHA. Keep pending=true and ready=false whenever
any lookup has failed, preventing release creation despite later successful
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Problem
Review on the five sibling PRs (getstream-go#164 and friends) found three defects in the hardening that merged here first, in #288.
numsholds exactly one number, the pending release. One 502 on it warns, continues, and the loop ends empty, so the step reports no pending release,release-propens a second Release PR on top of the untagged one, and nothing is ever tagged. Aborting was wrong; answering "nothing pending" when the answer is unknown is worse.release-prgated fail-open.!cancelled() && ... pending != 'true'runs the job whendetectfails before writing its output, because an empty string is not'true'. That produces the same duplicate Release PR.merged_atcheck.merge_commit_shais populated on closed-unmerged PRs too, with GitHub's speculative test-merge commit. Verified live:getstream-go#156is closed, not merged, still carriesautorelease: pending, and itsmerge_commit_shais not onmainand never will be.Solution
lookup_failedflag. If either call fails and no candidate was found, the step reportspending=trueand stands down rather than releasing on a guess.release-prgates onneeds.detect.outputs.pending == 'false', which is fail-closed for failed, skipped and cancelled alike. The duplicated event and ref guard goes with it.merged_at != nullis back in the per-PR filter, as defence in depth behind the listing filter.detecttakespull-requests: writefor that.The step is again identical to the other five.
How to verify
Stubbing
gh, the five paths through the branch:The last two are the fix: unknown stands down instead of releasing.
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