Wait for Actions to open a versioning pull request
Merge the pull request
Wait for versions to be released
Merge main back to develop
These steps are fairly manual, and step (4) currently attempts to do step (5) at the end but fails, leading to false positives for maintainers that the release process has actually failed. Step (5) is also forgotten with some regularity, despite being documented, because it comes after everything feels like it's "over with."
The solution
Automate more of this process
Remove opportunities for confusion
Additional information
The automated attempt at (5) contained in (4) may fail both because of branch protection rules and because of the Actions security model. We should take extra care to ensure that any automation we do will not allow changes from untrusted sources to be released or merged.
The problem
The release process currently roughly includes:
develop
tomain
main
back todevelop
These steps are fairly manual, and step (4) currently attempts to do step (5) at the end but fails, leading to false positives for maintainers that the release process has actually failed. Step (5) is also forgotten with some regularity, despite being documented, because it comes after everything feels like it's "over with."
The solution
Additional information
The automated attempt at (5) contained in (4) may fail both because of branch protection rules and because of the Actions security model. We should take extra care to ensure that any automation we do will not allow changes from untrusted sources to be released or merged.