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jcoffey-dev 5cb0b2f3ea Cut a release once a week, and only when there is something in it
Publishing on release is the right trigger only if releases happen. They had
not: main ran 184 commits ahead of the last one, so `:latest` described a
build that neither the demo, nor production, nor anyone building from source
was running. This is the part that makes the trigger true without anyone
having to remember.

Mondays at 09:00 UTC. A run with no commits since the last release does
nothing at all -- an empty release moves `:latest` to an identical build,
spends a version number and mails every watcher about nothing. The decision is
written to the run summary either way, so a quiet week reads as a decision
rather than as a workflow that failed silently.

The awkward part is that a release created with GITHUB_TOKEN raises no
`release` event: GitHub refuses to let a token trigger another workflow, to
stop a workflow looping on its own output. A scheduled job that cut a release
and left publish.yml to notice would tag the commit and never build an image,
which is the kind of failure that looks like success. So publish.yml gains a
`workflow_call` trigger and this calls it directly. The alternative was a
personal access token kept as a secret; this needs no credential.

Two smaller decisions. Drafts are excluded when looking for the last release,
because an unpublished draft is not a release anybody has and counting from it
would hide commits that never shipped. And if the tag a release names has
gone, the count falls back to the whole history -- over-counting cuts a
release that was due anyway, where under-counting skips one that was not.
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# Publish the container image to GHCR.
#
# The README and the docs site have told people to run
# `ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail:latest` for a long time, and nothing ever
# pushed it: `docker pull` answered `denied`, because the package did not
# exist. This is the workflow that makes those instructions true. It is also
# the prerequisite for the self-hosted app catalogues -- TrueNAS and Unraid
# both install by pulling an image and neither builds from source.
#
# FIRST RUN: a package GHCR creates for the first time is **private**, even in
# a public repository, and an anonymous `docker pull` will still answer
# `denied`. Nothing in a workflow can change that -- the visibility is set once
# by hand under the package's settings, and until it is, this looks like it
# worked while the docs stay just as wrong as before. Check with a logged-out
# pull, not with one from a machine that has credentials.
#
# Two architectures, each built on its own native runner rather than under
# QEMU. Emulated arm64 has to run `npm ci` and the Vite build through
# instruction translation, which takes tens of minutes and occasionally runs
# out of memory; `ubuntu-24.04-arm` is free for public repositories and does
# the same work at native speed. The cost is the by-digest dance below: each
# runner pushes an untagged image, and a final job joins the two digests into
# one multi-arch tag.
name: Publish image
on:
release:
types: [published]
# Callable, so release.yml can build the release it just cut. This is not a
# stylistic choice: a release created with GITHUB_TOKEN does **not** raise a
# `release` event -- GitHub refuses to let a token trigger another workflow,
# to stop a workflow looping on its own output. A scheduled job that cut a
# release and expected this file to notice would silently never publish. The
# alternatives are a personal access token kept as a secret, or calling the
# workflow directly. This is the one that needs no credential.
workflow_call:
inputs:
ref:
description: "Tag, branch or SHA to build"
required: true
type: string
tag_latest:
description: "Also move :latest to this build"
type: boolean
default: false
# Same reasoning as ci.yml's dispatch trigger: a run GitHub queues and then
# orphans can be neither rerun nor cancelled, and this workflow otherwise
# only fires on a release -- which is not something to cut twice because a
# runner died. `ref` also allows publishing an image for a tag that predates
# this workflow, which is how the first one gets built.
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
ref:
description: "Tag, branch or SHA to build"
required: true
default: main
tag_latest:
description: "Also move :latest to this build"
type: boolean
default: false
env:
# Hardcoded rather than derived from github.repository: a registry path must
# be lowercase and the owner is spelled `Coffey-Labs`, so deriving it means
# remembering to lowercase it. This is the string the docs already name.
IMAGE: ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail
jobs:
# The version is worked out once and handed to both builds, so the two
# architectures cannot disagree about what they are. scripts/version.mjs
# reads the commit date and how the commit arrived, so it needs real history
# rather than a shallow clone.
version:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
version: ${{ steps.v.outputs.version }}
docker_tag: ${{ steps.v.outputs.docker_tag }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: 22
- id: v
run: |
V="$(node scripts/version.mjs)"
echo "version=$V" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
# A Docker tag may not contain '+', so build metadata becomes '-'.
# The build is still *told* the real form, which is what About and
# /api/health report.
echo "docker_tag=${V/+/-}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "version $V -> tag ${V/+/-}"
build:
needs: version
runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
permissions:
contents: read
packages: write
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
include:
- platform: linux/amd64
runner: ubuntu-latest
- platform: linux/arm64
runner: ubuntu-24.04-arm
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref }}
- uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
- uses: docker/login-action@v3
with:
registry: ghcr.io
username: ${{ github.actor }}
password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Build and push by digest
id: push
uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
with:
context: .
platforms: ${{ matrix.platform }}
build-args: IHASMAIL_VERSION=${{ needs.version.outputs.version }}
# Attestations are off deliberately: they add manifests of their own
# to the index, and `imagetools create` below expects the two entries
# it pushed rather than four.
provenance: false
sbom: false
cache-from: type=gha,scope=${{ matrix.platform }}
cache-to: type=gha,mode=max,scope=${{ matrix.platform }}
outputs: type=image,name=${{ env.IMAGE }},push-by-digest=true,name-canonical=true,push=true
- name: Save the digest
run: |
mkdir -p /tmp/digests
# The prefix is stripped here and put back in the merge job, so the
# filename is the bare hash. Leaving it on produces
# `image@sha256:sha256:...` when the reference is rebuilt.
digest="${{ steps.push.outputs.digest }}"
touch "/tmp/digests/${digest#sha256:}"
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
# One artifact per platform; the merge job globs them back together.
name: digest-${{ strategy.job-index }}
path: /tmp/digests/*
retention-days: 1
if-no-files-found: error
# Joins the per-architecture digests into a single tagged manifest, so
# `docker pull ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail:<tag>` resolves on both.
publish:
needs: [version, build]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: read
packages: write
steps:
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
path: /tmp/digests
pattern: digest-*
merge-multiple: true
- uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
- uses: docker/login-action@v3
with:
registry: ghcr.io
username: ${{ github.actor }}
password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Create the manifest
run: |
# Arrays rather than a string: the tags and the digest references
# have to reach docker as separate arguments, and building them by
# word-splitting an unquoted variable is the version of this that
# breaks the day a value contains a space.
tags=(-t "${IMAGE}:${{ needs.version.outputs.docker_tag }}")
# :latest follows real releases only. A prerelease that moved it
# would hand every `:latest` deployment an unfinished build, and a
# dispatch run has to ask for it on purpose.
if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "release" ] && [ "${{ github.event.release.prerelease }}" = "false" ]; then
tags+=(-t "${IMAGE}:latest")
elif [ "${{ inputs.tag_latest }}" = "true" ]; then
tags+=(-t "${IMAGE}:latest")
fi
refs=()
for f in /tmp/digests/*; do
refs+=("${IMAGE}@sha256:$(basename "$f")")
done
echo "tags: ${tags[*]}"
echo "refs: ${refs[*]}"
docker buildx imagetools create "${tags[@]}" "${refs[@]}"
- name: Show what landed
run: docker buildx imagetools inspect "${IMAGE}:${{ needs.version.outputs.docker_tag }}"