ci: keep prerelease wheels off PyPI via Kitmaker mirroring_strategy

[aristarkhovNV]

Problem

Every push to a release/*.*.x branch mirrors a release candidate to public PyPI.

KITMAKER_UPLOAD is true for release branches, and the Kitmaker payload hardcoded publish_to: "both_devzone_pypi" for every submission, so there was no path that reached Kitmaker without also requesting PyPI. Combined with sync-release-branches.yml fast-forwarding release/1.5.x on every push to main, this means every merge to main publishes an rc to PyPI with no human in the loop.

The result: 139 of the 145 versions on PyPI are prereleases, all rcN, starting with 1.4.63rc1 on 2026-07-17.

Fix

Kitmaker's updated API replaces publish_to with mirroring_strategy:

• claim-project — DevZone only → release/*.*.x builds (rc versions)
• upload-both — DevZone + PyPI → vX.Y.Z tags (final versions)

ref	version	upload	mirroring_strategy	lands on
pull request	dev	job skipped	—	—
push main	X.Y.Z.dev0+label	false	claim-project	nothing (dry run)
push release/X.Y.x	X.Y.ZrcN	true	claim-project	DevZone only
tag vX.Y.Z	X.Y.Z	true	upload-both	DevZone + PyPI

Keying the strategy on the ref is safe because ref and version cannot disagree: cmake/IsaacTeleopVersion.cmake hard-fails a tag that is not vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH and forces rcN on release/X.Y.x.

Verification

build-ubuntu.yml parses, publish_to no longer appears in the file, and the generated payloads are:

{"pic":"…","job_type":"wheel-release-job","mirroring_strategy":"claim-project","url":"…isaacteleop-1.5.141rc1-cp312.whl","size":"small","upload":true}
{"pic":"…","job_type":"wheel-release-job","mirroring_strategy":"upload-both","url":"…isaacteleop-1.5.141-cp312.whl","size":"small","upload":true}

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Updated Kitmaker submissions to use the appropriate mirroring strategy for version tags and release builds.
  • Ensured submission payloads reflect the selected mirroring configuration instead of a fixed destination.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Ubuntu build workflow now sets KITMAKER_MIRRORING from the Git reference. Version tags use upload-both. release/*.*.x builds use claim-project. The Kitmaker payload now sends this value through mirroring_strategy instead of the fixed publish_to field.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c0dad

The workflow can still send prerelease tag builds to public PyPI because any v* tag receives the public-release strategy. Restricting this behavior to final-version tags is required before merge to prevent unintended prerelease publication.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main CI change: it prevents prerelease wheels from reaching PyPI by using Kitmaker's mirroring_strategy.

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✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch aaristarkhov/kitmaker-mirroring-strategy

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/build-ubuntu.yml:
- Line 1133: Update the KITMAKER_MIRRORING expression to assign upload-both only
when github.ref matches the complete final-version tag format, excluding
prerelease tags; retain claim-project for all other refs and tags.

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