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Deprecate `update-release-status.yml` workflow

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, github-actions, javascript
Domain
ci-cd, cloud, release

Research direction

Compare the update-release-status.yml workflow with scripts/release/webhook-handler.js to identify the release-state logic that should move into the Azure Function. Confirm that the function can dispatch update-status.yml after all check-runs conclude, then deprecate the workflow once the equivalent behavior is represented there.

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Description

enhancement release-process

The update-release-status.yml workflow is responsible to monitor the overall states of a release and dispatch the update-status.yml if all the check-runs successfully concluded.

The initial goal was to respond to check run events, but GitHub Actions doesn't dispatch this event generated by workflows to prevent divergent execution.
To reintroduce this behavior we have implemented an Azure Function that dispatches the update-release-status.yml workflow.

This Azure Function implemented in webhook-handler.js can include all the logic in update-release-status.yml.

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