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Further automate build and release process

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, python

Research direction

Start with the run_release.py script and the GitHub Actions workflows involved in build and release. Trace how workflow completion and artifacts are currently handled, then determine the local testing step that was removed. Done means workflows can be detected and artifacts downloaded automatically, with local testing restored in run_release.py.

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Description

We also have partially automated the release process in GitHub Actions but haven't reached the level of automation that we have for Windows and Azure Pipelines.

Currently run_release requires humans to click around in the GitHub UI to manually execute the GitHub workflow, which wasn't the case before. We also lost the automatic local testing step in favor of testing on GitHub Actions, but local assurance is good to have for RMs.

  • Further automate kicking off the build and release workflows on GitHub Actions.
  • Automatically detect workflow completion and download artifacts from GitHub Actions.
  • Add back local testing to run_release.py script once artifacts are automatically downloaded.

cc @ambv

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Python
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