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Motivation

Releases are drafted from this repo but published from a separate central workflow with rake release. This moves publishing here: merging the release PR publishes the gem and the drafted release once a maintainer approves it.

Changes

  • Add a Release workflow that runs when CHANGELOG.md changes on main, with a manual run and a dry run as a fallback
  • It runs only when a draft release matches the top CHANGELOG.md version, so ordinary changelog edits are skipped
  • The specs run and the gem is built without any publishing rights; the build fails if Mailtrap::VERSION doesn't match CHANGELOG.md
  • Publishing waits for approval on the release environment, then pushes the built gem to RubyGems through trusted publishing (no API key stored)
  • The draft release is pinned to the merged commit before it is published, so the tag lands on what was built. This replaces rake release, which created the tag itself

How to test

  • Run the Release workflow manually with dry_run checked: detect and build pass, the gem artifact is uploaded, Publish is skipped
  • Merge the next release PR and approve the release deployment: the gem is on RubyGems and the release is published with its tag on the merge commit

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    • Automated releases can be triggered by eligible changelog updates or a manual request; runs from non-default branches are rejected.
    • Before publishing, the process checks the pending version, runs tests, and builds a gem package.
    • Manual dry runs build and test without publishing. Manual requests without a pending release fail unless run as a dry run.
    • Eligible releases publish the gem and a corresponding GitHub release; changelog-triggered runs are skipped when no release is pending.

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The pull request adds a GitHub Actions workflow that detects pending releases, validates and builds the gem, and publishes the gem and GitHub release. Manual dispatch supports dry runs.

Changes: Gem release workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release triggers and detection
.github/workflows/release.yml
The workflow starts on changelog pushes to main or manual dispatch. It checks the ref and determines whether a pending release or dry run permits the build.
Gem validation and build
.github/workflows/release.yml
The build job checks Mailtrap::VERSION against the detected changelog version, installs dependencies, runs RSpec, builds the gem, and uploads an artifact.
Gem and GitHub release publication
.github/workflows/release.yml
For non-dry runs, the publish job checks RubyGems and GitHub release state, then pushes the gem and publishes the GitHub release.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions
  participant DetectionJob
  participant BuildJob
  participant PublishJob
  participant RubyGems
  participant GitHubRelease
  GitHubActions->>DetectionJob: Start on changelog push or manual dispatch
  DetectionJob->>BuildJob: Pass detected version when proceeding
  BuildJob->>BuildJob: Check version, run RSpec, build and upload gem artifact
  BuildJob->>PublishJob: Provide artifact after successful build
  PublishJob->>RubyGems: Check release state and push gem
  PublishJob->>GitHubRelease: Check release state and publish release
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Suggested reviewers: izikaj

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 94ded

The release workflow runs third-party actions from a moving branch during the privileged publish step. The maintainers have accepted this for now and plan to move to a release tag. It is mergeable, but pinning to a commit or tag should follow.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 5

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding the release workflow.
Description check Passed The description includes the required Motivation, Changes, and How to test sections. It explains the workflow behavior and provides concrete test steps. The Images and GIFs section is omitted, but thi…
Docstring Coverage Passed No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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The description includes the required Motivation, Changes, and How to test sections. It explains the workflow behavior and provides concrete test steps. The Images and GIFs section is omitted, but this non-critical section does not prevent the description from being mostly complete.

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No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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@IgorDobryn IgorDobryn changed the title Define draft-release Add release workflow Nov 9, 2026

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  • Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 50: Update the release workflow’s resolve-pending-release reference and
the three publishing action references so all actions are available and loadable
for matching push and manual runs; publish them to the referenced repository or
switch to available implementations.
- Around line 45-46: Pin every action used by the release workflow to an audited
commit SHA instead of a mutable branch or tag, while preserving the existing
persist-credentials setting.

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Replace the template placeholders with real content. In Motivation, explain why
a release workflow is needed. In Changes, list the actual changes, such as the
trigger on CHANGELOG.md changes, the dry-run and pending-release logic, the
version check, the RSpec run, the gem build, and the RubyGems and GitHub release
publishing steps. In How to test, list the real test steps, such as a manual dry
run, and mark completed items. Remove the Images and GIFs table if it does not
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Comment thread .github/workflows/release.yml Resolved
Comment thread .github/workflows/release.yml Resolved
detect runs with a read-only token, which can't see draft releases, so
resolve-pending-release now reports the newest CHANGELOG.md version as
pending until it has a published release. A real dispatch on a version
that is already released fails; the publish job's draft check confirms
the draft after approval.
github.ref_name is the short name, so a manual run started from a tag
named like the default branch passed the check and would build that
tag's commit. Comparing github.ref with refs/heads/<default branch>
accepts only the branch.
A dry run continues whether or not the top CHANGELOG.md version is
released, so it passed even when detection was wrong. Decide now logs
pending and dry_run, and a dry run on an already released version gets a
warning that it didn't exercise detection.
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IgorDobryn merged commit 0bd57ce into main Nov 12, 2026
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