refactor: reusable WP.org release workflow #226
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Pull request overview
This PR introduces a reusable workflow for publishing WordPress plugins to WordPress.org, adapting the previous CircleCI workspace-based approach to GitHub Actions' artifact system.
Changes:
- Adds artifact upload to the release workflow with 1-day retention for transient inter-job communication
- Creates a new reusable WordPress.org release workflow that downloads release artifacts and executes the publishing script
- Implements verification to ensure the expected plugin directory structure exists before attempting to publish
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
.github/workflows/reusable-release.yml |
Adds artifact upload step for the release directory with 1-day retention |
.github/workflows/reusable-release-wporg.yml |
New reusable workflow that downloads release artifacts, verifies structure, and publishes to WordPress.org |
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The repos migrating from CircleCI to GitHub Actions that publish to WP.org had a
release-wporgjob that did a fresh checkout +npm cibut never built therelease/directory thatrelease-wporg.shexpects.In CircleCI, this worked via
persist_to_workspace/attach_workspace. This PR tries to bridge that gap usingupload-artifact/download-artifact:reusable-release-wporg.yml, a reusable workflow for publishing to WordPress.org that downloads release artifacts from the release job and runsrelease-wporg.sh.plugin-nameinput (defaults to the repository name) for repos where the WP.org slug differs.release/<plugin-name>directory is missing. For the existing cases, the repo names should match, but this could become useful in the future.retention-days: 1to the release artifact upload inreusable-release.yml, since these artifacts are only needed as transitory glue between the release and WP.org release jobs within the same workflow run.Consuming PRs: