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Some concerns.
It may be worthwhile to finish up the TS pup port before merging this? It should be 99% done. I believe all that's really left is CRs and creating GitHub Actions for it?
I just haven't been able to devote any time to it. If you'd like to move that forward, I'd be 100% ok with that :)
Note: There's some weird branch dependencies with TS pup as the idea was to ensure each PR only depended on what it needed to function, so you'll want to be careful when merging.
| The action checks the first before running anything, because pup does not: a missing `.puprc`, one that | ||
| is not JSON, and one with no `paths.versions` all make pup change nothing and exit 0, and the branch | ||
| would be pushed with the old version. Each of them fails the job here with the branch untouched. | ||
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| - No `checks.tbd.dirs`: pup falls back to its default and replaces TBDs under `src/` only. | ||
| - No `changelogger` section: the changelogger falls back to its defaults and writes a keepachangelog | ||
| `changelog.md` with semver versioning. | ||
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| A writing strategy given as a `.js` file is loaded from the checkout, so it has to be there before the | ||
| action runs. One written in TypeScript has to be built in an earlier step. |
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This reads like AI slop. The evaluative filler of Two gaps are warnings rather than failures is so exhausting to read, and if our docs are exhausting to read, then humans will never read it.
I would suggest either rewriting the docs manually for a human, or tighten the reins on Claude so that it writes the documentation without phrases like this.
I personally have the following in my global CLAUDE.md which seems to help a fair amount:
No flowery prose. Never use metaphor, idiom, or literary framing in documentation, code comments,
commit messages, or PR text — say the plain thing with the literal verb and the concrete noun.
Headings state what happens rather than a figure of speech. Rejected examples: "two doors to the
same room" for two controls that do the same thing, "Downgrading is a one-way door" as a heading,
"hands it back", "on its way out". Write "The Reset pill does the same thing as the Reset button in
the Settings panel" and "Rolling the plugin back breaks blocks that use tokens" instead.
No evaluative filler. This is separate from the rule above and catches sentences with no metaphor in
them at all. Do not tell me how to regard a fact: whether it is narrow, material, worth knowing,
notable, surprising, the real question, or the thing that needs a decision. State the fact and let it
stand. Delete any clause whose only job is to announce the value of what follows, and do not address
the reader in an aside. This applies to your replies to me as well as to documents. Rejected, with
the replacement that was correct:
- "The cost is narrow and worth knowing in advance: a PR re-downloads it" → "Enabling it has one
cost: a PR re-downloads it"
- "They are not branch-scoped, which is the constraint that needs a decision rather than just
noting." → "They are also not branch-scoped."
- "Do not ask for this one." → "It is not recommended."
- "nothing in the mechanism bounds the blast radius" → "the mechanism places no limit on how many
later runs are affected"
- "The argument against it is the poor ratio of payoff to work." → "The reason to skip it is the
small saving relative to the work."
- "It has the larger payoff by far." → "Its saving is the larger of the two."
Prefer the plainest verb and the plainest noun available. "The image reference is what invalidates
the cache", not "the image reference does the invalidating". "slic's compose override file", not
"slic's compose override seam". "write our own", not "hand-roll".| - **A pre-release is refused.** `4.17.0-beta.1` is rejected by the `stellarwp` versioning, so the action | ||
| cannot prepare one, even though it is a valid tag name. |
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If a custom Version Strategy is defined, this may not necessarily be true. This is only the case by default. It could be worth clarifying that fact :)
| The release branch to push the preparation to, e.g. `release/M26.jigglypuff`. A branch name, not a | ||
| ref. The action does not check it out: the caller's checkout has to be on it, and the action | ||
| refuses to run when it is not. |
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If it cannot be a ref, then should the arg be renamed? Naming it ref when it cannot accept any ref is confusing.
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| The version to prepare: three or four numeric parts, such as `4.17.0` or `4.17.0.1`. An empty | ||
| value, a pre-release such as `4.17.0-beta.1`, and a version lower than the one the branch | ||
| already has are refused before anything is changed. |
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If we make the adjustment to the main docs to account for a custom Version Strategy, this should probably have a less specific description.
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| description: 'The pup release that bumps the version and replaces the TBDs.' | ||
| required: false | ||
| default: '2.0.0' |
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Default should grab the most recent version, not a hardcoded one.
| /** | ||
| * Where a pup release's phar is published. | ||
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| * @param {string} version A pup release number, already validated. | ||
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| * @returns {string} The download URL. | ||
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| function pupDownloadUrl(version) { | ||
| return `https://github.com/stellarwp/pup/releases/download/${version}/pup.phar` | ||
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Possible warning: pup has a bunch of PRs open to rewrite it in TS. How will we handle PHP vs TS Pup in this action if we accept a version input like this? Will we stop supporting PHP pup in this action once the TS build is released? Will we have a branching path here to support both variants?
TS pup should have GitHub Actions support similar to how Changelogger does, so maybe the branch happens by choosing to either run those GitHub Actions from pup or to fall back to downloading the .phar?
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| * Orders two versions by their numeric parts, a missing part counting as 0, so 4.18.0.1 comes after | ||
| * 4.18.0 and 4.10.0 after 4.9.0. | ||
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| * @param {string} a A version of numeric dot-separated parts. | ||
| * @param {string} b Another one. | ||
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| * @returns {number} -1 when `a` comes first, 1 when `b` does, 0 when they are the same version. | ||
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| const left = a.split('.').map(Number) | ||
| const right = b.split('.').map(Number) | ||
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This is basically a copy of compareVersions in .github/actions/resolve-floating-tags/resolve.js.
We should instead move that out into another file so that it can be shared.
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| * Commits whatever the preparation changed and pushes it to the release branch. | ||
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| * When nothing changed, which is what re-preparing a version that is already on the branch finds, | ||
| * it neither commits nor pushes, and succeeds. | ||
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| * @param {object} core The @actions/core toolkit, for the log, the outputs and the summary. | ||
| * @param {object} exec The @actions/exec toolkit. | ||
| * @param {object} env The environment the action manifest put its inputs in. | ||
| * @param {string} cwd The checkout, the working directory by default. | ||
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| * @throws {Error} When a git command fails, the push included. | ||
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| * @returns {Promise<void>} Resolves once the commit is pushed, or found unnecessary. | ||
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Why doesn't this just use https://github.com/octokit/octokit.js similar to how The move-git-tags Composite Action does? It can create commits for us without us having to hand write everything and we have ways to write unit tests for it by mocking its internals already available.
Example via Claude:
const { data: ref } = await octokit.rest.git.getRef({ owner, repo, ref: `heads/${branch}` });
const parentSha = ref.object.sha;
const { data: parent } = await octokit.rest.git.getCommit({ owner, repo, commit_sha: parentSha });
const { data: tree } = await octokit.rest.git.createTree({
owner,
repo,
base_tree: parent.tree.sha,
tree: [
{ path: 'dist/index.js', mode: '100644', type: 'blob', content: fileContents },
// Use `sha: null` to delete a path.
],
});
const { data: commit } = await octokit.rest.git.createCommit({
owner,
repo,
message: 'Build dist',
tree: tree.sha,
parents: [ parentSha ],
});
await octokit.rest.git.updateRef({ owner, repo, ref: `heads/${branch}`, sha: commit.sha });| /** | ||
| * The last non-empty line of a command's output, where `pup get-version` prints the version after any | ||
| * PHP notice. | ||
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| * @param {string} output What the command printed. | ||
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| * @returns {string} The line, trimmed, or an empty string. | ||
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| function lastLine(output) { | ||
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| String(output ?? '') | ||
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| .map((line) => line.trim()) | ||
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Similar to the TS pup concerns, we would need to be sure this could be compatible with what it produces. I tried to ensure that TS pup produced near-identical output to PHP pup, but it is possible that it outputs some commands slightly differently.
The input only ever accepts a branch name, never a full ref, so the name said something the value could not be. The workflow-level input of the template stays `ref`: that is the dispatch interface a release tool sends, unchanged.
…oded default pup-version now takes a release number or 'latest' (the default). A pinned release still downloads straight from its release page, with no API call; 'latest' reads the newest release through the GitHub API, authenticated with the action token so the runner's shared unauthenticated quota is not spent.
…floating-tags actions Both actions carried the same part-by-part version ordering. It now lives in .github/lib/versions.js, which ships in the same repository checkout the runner fetches for the action: one implementation, no package to publish, nothing for a caller to install.
A release's pup.phar asset decides how the preparation runs, not a version comparison: the phar is there and the action runs it as it always has; it answers 404 and the release is the TypeScript line, which runs through its own GitHub Action. The manifest carries those calls already — conditioned on the distribution the prepare step reports, so they stay inert until a phar-less release exists — spelling out the interface the pup action is expected to ship, the changelogger pattern this action already uses. uses: only takes a static ref, so the floating major tag @V3 is the moving pin. The branch-version check stays on the phar path for now; the TS contract does not define it. The asset check is a HEAD request, not the releases API, so a pinned pup-version stays free of API calls.
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Validate tag_name from the latest-release response.
The code uses tag_name without validation. The value then goes into a download URL and a temp file path. If the response has no tag, release becomes undefined. The HEAD request then returns 404 for .../download/undefined/pup.phar. The action takes that 404 to mean the TS distribution and continues without an error. Check tag_name against PUP_VERSION_PATTERN, or at least require it to be a non-empty string.
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- return (await response.json()).tag_name
+ const tag = (await response.json())?.tag_name
+ if (typeof tag !== 'string' || !PUP_VERSION_PATTERN.test(tag)) {
+ throw new Error(`The latest pup release has no usable tag ('${tag}'). Pass a pinned pup-version. Nothing was changed.`)
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+ return tag
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The review called out the docs reading like model output: evaluative framing, asides that explain how to regard a fact, phrases that cushion what is plain. This rewrites the file for a human reader: each sentence states one fact with a literal verb, the refused-version list carries only the rule and its cause, and the operational sections (pushing, dates, reruns) drop the commentary.
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release-prep, the version bump the README lists under Phase 3, as a composite action plus a caller workflow to copy. It follows the shape #3 set: the logic is a CommonJS module run byactions/github-script, inputs reach it throughenv, and it is unit tested withnode:testagainst the shared harness.What it does
From the root of the checkout, in order:
pup replace-version <version>bumps every file in the.puprc'spaths.versions.pup replace-tbd <version>replaces the TBD placeholders inchecks.tbd.dirs.stellarwp/changelogger@v1(command: write) writes the pendingchangelog/entries.Prepare <ref> (<version>)and pushed toref.It opens no pull request: the commit lands on the release branch and is reviewed with the release. It is what
bin/release-prep.shin givewp does locally, and what learndash-core'srelease-prep.ymldoes minus the pull request, with pup's TBD replacement instead ofsed.Choices worth a look
workflow_callyet. Same reasoning asrelease-tags.yml: a reusable workflow would have to pin a version of this repo. The Phase 3 item now reads as the wrapper around this action..puprcas empty, bumps nothing and exits 0. The action refuses a missing.puprc, invalid JSON and an emptypaths.versionsbefore anything runs, and warns whenchecks.tbd.dirsor thechangeloggersection is missing.stellarwpversioning, minus its blind spot (it reads an empty part as 0, so it takes2.1..21). Pre-releases and an empty version are refused up front.todaywould land as the word and an empty input as an empty date. The action resolves both to today in UTC first.tokeninput, explicitly, so the caller checks out withpersist-credentials: false. The credential goes to git throughGIT_CONFIG_COUNT/KEY/VALUEfor that one process: never on the command line@actions/execechoes, never in.git/config. A header the checkout persisted under the same key is cleared first, so a caller that keeps the defaultpersist-credentials: truestill pushes withtokenonly. The token and its encoded form are both masked.pup get-version). Preparing4.17.0on a branch at4.18.0is refused: it would bump the plugin backwards, so the version or the branch is wrong. The same version passes, since that is what re-running a preparation finds.ref. The push writesHEADtorefs/heads/<ref>, and from another branch that the release branch is an ancestor of, git accepts it as a fast-forward and the release picks up that branch's commits (a run started frommainwhose checkout got noref, for instance). The action checks the checked-out branch first and refuses a different branch or a detached checkout.Harness changes
recordingExec, a stand-in for@actions/execthat answers from rules and records calls, likerecordingFetch. A call no rule plans for answers exit 127.core.summarykeeps the path of its first write for the life of the process, so it is one file per process, read from an offset per test.captureStdoutalso collected the test runner's own reports.node --testruns each file in a child that reports to the parent over stdout, as Buffers written whenever the runner flushes, which can be during a later test that awaits. Those reports were swallowed, and the file counted as one test while still passing. The existing tests are quick enough not to hit it; the git tests here did. Only strings are collected now, which is what@actions/corewrites.Tests
node --test: 175 pass, on every commit of the branch. The commit and push tests run real git against a local bare repository, a fast-forward refusal included, and against a local HTTP server to check the Authorization headers the push sends. The pup steps run againstrecordingExec.actionlint1.7.12 is clean on the template and, through a localuses: ./caller, on the manifest. It flagsqueue: maxinrelease-tags.yml, which it does not know yet; that file is untouched here.Verified end to end
On two private test plugins in this org, each with a
.puprc(three version spots: the plugin header, a constant andreadme.txt'sStable tag), achangeloggersection usingstellarwp-readme, and atoolbox-release-prep.ymlcopied from the template. Every run was dispatched the way the NX1 release dashboard does it, withrefandversiononly, sodatetook the default path.@since,@deprecated,_deprecated_function), 4 changelog entries written as= [2.1.26] 2026-10-08 =, one commit pushed. Two prose mentions of "TBD" left alone.2.1..21versionrequired, GitHub refuses the dispatch itself:HTTP 422: Required input 'version' not provided.What the action pushed, to compare against the branch before it ran:
release/M26.test29: the prepare commit, the branch before and after.release/M26.test32: the prepare commit, the branch before and after.Both releases then went through the RC build and the deploy, which read the prepared version back from the plugin file.
These runs used the action at
d5326e9, before the checkout check above was added. The head of this branch, with the check, was confirmed afterwards with one more prepare on a scratch branch of release-test-plugin-a: release-test-plugin-a#37841543543, version 2.1.27, one TBD replaced, the changelog entry written, one commit pushed.The version check was confirmed the same way at
e835e28, on a scratch branch at 2.1.26: 2.1.25 is refused ("already has 2.1.26, a later version", nothing pushed), and 2.1.27 prepares as usual.Trying it yourself
.puprcwithpaths.versionsandchecks.tbd.dirs, and achangeloggersection inpackage.json(both shown in the action's README).templates/workflows/release-prep.ymlto.github/workflows/on the default branch, withuses:pointing at this branch.release/x.y.z, and on it add a function with@since TBDand an entry inchangelog/.gh workflow run release-prep.yml --ref release/x.y.z -f ref=release/x.y.z -f version=x.y.zPrepare release/x.y.z (x.y.z), bygithub-actions[bot]: the version in everypaths.versionsfile, the TBDs replaced, the entries written into the changelog file with today's date and deleted fromchangelog/.-f version=1.2..3it fails before changing anything.Summary by CodeRabbit
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