ci(store): add a retry path for Store submission that rebuilds nothing - #380
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build.yml's publish-msstore job has no usable retry, which v1.9.5 found the hard way. Re-running the failed job replays the workflow definition frozen into the original run, so the fix landed afterwards is not picked up. Re-dispatching build.yml rebuilds all five platforms and re-uploads the release assets with `--clobber` — rewriting a published release to correct a Store submission — and dispatching it from main rather than the tag would rewrite it with binaries built from code that release never contained. So: a workflow_dispatch that takes the appx build already produced and submits it. No rebuild, no release asset touched, and the macOS legs that needed three attempts are not in the path. `dry_run` passes --noCommit, which leaves the submission in draft. That is the validation path the review of #379 asked for and build.yml still lacks: without it, "let's see whether the .appx is accepted" puts a build into certification. It also answers the open question from that PR cheaply, since --inputFile is documented for .msix/.msixupload and we produce .appx. Read-only token, persist-credentials off, and the tag checked out rather than the default branch so the project state matches the package. Verified as far as it can be without running: YAML parses, all five bash steps pass `bash -n`, and the pwsh block parses through Parser::ParseFile — which caught two real defects. `$args` is a PowerShell automatic variable, and an em dash inside a double-quoted string terminated it early under a non-UTF-8 read, orphaning the rest of the message.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a manually dispatched Windows workflow that validates a stable tag, reuses an existing Store artifact, supports draft submissions, and reports Microsoft Store submission status. Documentation describes the retry workflow and dry-run requirements. ChangesMicrosoft Store publishing
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The workflow adds a localized Store-submission retry path without rebuilding or modifying release assets, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReleaseOperator
participant GitHubActions
participant BuildWorkflow
participant MicrosoftStoreCLI
participant MicrosoftStore
ReleaseOperator->>GitHubActions: Dispatch with release_tag and optional run_id
GitHubActions->>BuildWorkflow: Resolve matching build run
BuildWorkflow-->>GitHubActions: Provide Store artifact
GitHubActions->>MicrosoftStoreCLI: Configure credentials and package
MicrosoftStoreCLI->>MicrosoftStore: Submit package with optional --noCommit
MicrosoftStore-->>GitHubActions: Return submission status
GitHubActions-->>ReleaseOperator: Publish workflow summary
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In @.github/workflows/publish-msstore.yml:
- Around line 144-145: Remove the invalid empty GitHub Actions expression from
the comment in the run block, while retaining the intended note that values
should be passed through environment variables rather than interpolated directly
into shell source.
- Line 50: Remove the job-level condition checking vars.MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID so
the publish job always runs, and add MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID to the
required-configuration validation before checkout or submission, ensuring an
absent value produces a failure and Summary entry.
- Around line 98-120: Update the “Resolve the build run” step to validate an
explicitly supplied RUN_ID before writing it to GITHUB_OUTPUT: query the GitHub
Actions run and confirm it belongs to build.yml and its headSha matches the
commit referenced by TAG, rejecting mismatches with an error and nonzero exit.
Keep the existing latest-run resolution for omitted run_id unchanged.
In `@technical-documentation/engineering/release-and-secrets.md`:
- Line 182: Update the release documentation sentence to use the
American-English spelling “afterward” instead of “afterwards,” without changing
the surrounding explanation.
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| It exists because `build.yml`'s own job has no usable retry. Re-running the failed job replays the workflow definition frozen into the original run, so a fix landed afterwards is never picked up; and re-dispatching `build.yml` rebuilds every platform and re-uploads the release assets with `--clobber`, rewriting a published release to correct a Store submission — and, if dispatched from `main` rather than the tag, rewriting it with binaries built from code that release never contained. v1.9.5 hit both walls. |
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Use American-English spelling.
Change afterwards to afterward to satisfy the LanguageTool check.
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[locale-violation] ~182-~182: In American English, ‘afterward’ is the preferred variant. ‘Afterwards’ is more commonly used in British English and other dialects.
Context: ... into the original run, so a fix landed afterwards is never picked up; and re-dispatching ...
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In `@technical-documentation/engineering/release-and-secrets.md` at line 182,
Update the release documentation sentence to use the American-English spelling
“afterward” instead of “afterwards,” without changing the surrounding
explanation.
Source: Linters/SAST tools
…un id
Three review findings, one of which would have stopped the workflow from
running at all.
`${{ }}` inside a `run:` block is not a comment. Actions substitutes
expressions across the whole block before the shell sees it, and an empty
one is a parse error. build.yml has the same text at line 1072 and is
fine, because there it sits in a YAML comment that never reaches the
expression parser -- the distinction is which side of `run:` it falls on.
My local YAML and shell checks could not see this: it is neither.
The job-level `if: vars.MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID != ''` skipped the whole job
when unconfigured, and a skipped job is green and silent. build.yml can
afford that as one job in an automatic release; this one exists to be
triggered by hand, where "nothing happened, no error" is the worst
answer. MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID moves into the configuration check and fails
loudly with a Summary line.
And an explicitly supplied run_id was trusted as given. Nothing
downstream inspects what is inside the artifact, so a transposed digit
would submit another commit's package to the Store under this tag. It is
now checked to be a build.yml run whose head_sha matches the tag being
published -- verified against the real v1.9.5 run first, so the check
accepts the run it exists to retry rather than rejecting it.
Not taken: "afterwards" -> "afterward". The repo uses "afterwards"
throughout (AGENTS.md, build-and-packaging.md, release-and-secrets.md,
manual-e2e-checklist.md, website/docs); changing one instance would make
it the odd one out.
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Three taken, one declined with evidence. The empty expression was the real catch, and my checks structurally could not see it. Worth naming why it slipped past: The silent skip. The unchecked Declined: Re-validated: no empty expression in any run block, all five bash steps pass |
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Depends on #379 (the corrected
msstore publishcall); this adds the way to use it without a release.Why not just re-run something
Three obvious retry paths, all dead ends — checked, not assumed:
build.ymlfrommain.build.yml:815doesgh release upload "$TAG" … --clobberwhen the release already exists. Dispatching frommainrebuilds frommain— which carries210e5da2, the feature deliberately held back for 1.10 — and clobbers v1.9.5's published assets with binaries containing code that release never had.build.ymlfrom the tag. The workflow definition then comes from the tag, which predates the fix.What this does
workflow_dispatch→ takes the appxbuild.ymlalready produced, submits it. Nothing is rebuilt, no release asset is touched, and the macOS legs (which needed three attempts on v1.9.5) are not in the path.release_tagbuild.ymlrun_idbuild.ymlrun for the tag — deliberately not filtered on success, since the run being retried is usually the one whose Store step faileddry_run-nc, --noCommit: creates the submission and leaves it in draftdry_runis the validation path the review of #379 asked for andbuild.ymlstill lacks. It also answers that PR's open question cheaply:--inputFileis documented for.msix/.msixuploadwhile we produce an.appx, and a draft submission tells us whether the CLI accepts it without putting a build in front of users.Token is
contents: read+actions: read,persist-credentials: false, and the tag is checked out rather than the default branch so the project state matches the package being submitted.Verification
It cannot be run before merge, so I checked what can be checked:
bashsteps passbash -n.pwshblock parses through[Parser]::ParseFile.That last check earned its keep — it caught two real defects I would otherwise have shipped:
$argsis a PowerShell automatic variable; the block assigned to it and splatted it.throwstring terminated the string early under a non-UTF-8 read, leavingrefusingas an orphan token and the block missing a brace. Non-ASCII is now out of the PowerShell entirely.Suggested first use
Dispatch with
release_tag: v1.9.5,dry_run: true. If the draft is created, the.appxquestion is answered and the same dispatch withoutdry_runships it.Summary by CodeRabbit
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