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225 changes: 225 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/publish-msstore.yml
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name: Publish to Microsoft Store (retry)

# Submits an already-built appx to the Store, without rebuilding anything.
#
# build.yml's own publish-msstore job is the normal path. This exists because
# that job has no usable retry: re-running it replays the workflow definition
# frozen into the original run, so a fix landed afterwards is not 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. v1.9.5 hit exactly that dead end.
#
# So this takes the appx that build already produced and submits it. Nothing is
# rebuilt, no release asset is touched, and the flaky macOS legs are not in the
# way.

on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
release_tag:
description: "Stable tag whose appx should be submitted (e.g. v1.9.5)"
required: true
type: string
run_id:
description: "Build run to take the appx from. Leave empty to use the most recent build for the tag."
required: false
type: string
dry_run:
description: "Create the submission but leave it in draft (--noCommit). Use this to test without shipping."
required: false
type: boolean
default: false

# Read-only: this checks the tree out so the CLI can identify the project, and
# reads a build artifact. Partner Center is reached with its own Entra
# credentials, not with this token.
permissions:
contents: read
actions: read

concurrency:
group: publish-msstore-${{ inputs.release_tag }}
cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
submit:
name: Submit ${{ inputs.release_tag }} to the Store
runs-on: windows-latest
# No job-level `if` on MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID, deliberately. build.yml can afford
# to skip: it is one job among many in an automatic release. This one is
# something a person asked for by hand, and a skipped job is green and
# silent — the exact shape that let Homebrew and WinGet report success while
# publishing nothing for eight releases. Missing configuration is checked
# below and fails loudly instead.
steps:
- name: Validate the tag
id: tag
shell: bash
env:
TAG: ${{ inputs.release_tag }}
run: |
if [[ ! "$TAG" =~ ^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
echo "::error::Expected a stable tag like v1.9.5; got '${TAG}'. RCs must never reach the Store."
exit 1
fi
echo "tag=$TAG" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

# All-or-nothing, as in build.yml: a half-configured publisher is a
# misnamed secret, and failing loudly beats submitting nothing quietly.
- name: Resolve Store configuration
id: store
shell: bash
env:
MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID: ${{ vars.MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID }}
AZURE_AD_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_AD_TENANT_ID }}
AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_CLIENT_ID }}
AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_SECRET: ${{ secrets.AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_SECRET }}
SELLER_ID: ${{ secrets.SELLER_ID }}
run: |
# MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID is in here rather than in a job-level `if` so an
# unconfigured repository gets an error and a Summary line, not a
# silent skip on a run somebody triggered on purpose.
required=(MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID AZURE_AD_TENANT_ID
AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_CLIENT_ID AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_SECRET
SELLER_ID)
missing=()
for name in "${required[@]}"; do
[[ -n "${!name}" ]] || missing+=("$name")
done
if [[ ${#missing[@]} -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "::error::Store configuration incomplete; missing: ${missing[*]}"
exit 1
fi

- name: Check out the tag
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
# `msstore publish` takes a project root and detects the app type
# there; it is not given a package to introspect. Checking out the tag
# rather than the default branch keeps that project state matching the
# appx being submitted.
ref: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.tag }}
# Nothing here pushes, and the token would otherwise sit in .git/config
# for the third-party CLI action below to read.
persist-credentials: false

- name: Resolve the build run
id: run
shell: bash
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
TAG: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.tag }}
RUN_ID: ${{ inputs.run_id }}
run: |
if [[ -n "$RUN_ID" ]]; then
# A hand-typed run id is the one input that can quietly ship the
# wrong bytes: nothing downstream re-checks what is inside the
# artifact, so a transposed digit could submit another commit's
# package to the Store under this tag. Confirm it is a build.yml run
# and that it was built from the tag being published.
INFO="$(gh api "repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/runs/${RUN_ID}" \
--jq '{path: .path, sha: .head_sha}' 2>/dev/null)" || {
echo "::error::Run ${RUN_ID} not found in ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}."
exit 1
}
RUN_PATH="$(jq -r .path <<<"$INFO")"
RUN_SHA="$(jq -r .sha <<<"$INFO")"
TAG_SHA="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
if [[ "$RUN_PATH" != ".github/workflows/build.yml" ]]; then
echo "::error::Run ${RUN_ID} is ${RUN_PATH}, not build.yml."
exit 1
fi
if [[ "$RUN_SHA" != "$TAG_SHA" ]]; then
echo "::error::Run ${RUN_ID} built ${RUN_SHA}, but ${TAG} is ${TAG_SHA}."
exit 1
fi
echo "Using run ${RUN_ID}: build.yml at ${RUN_SHA}"
else
# Deliberately not filtered on conclusion: the run this is most
# likely to be retrying is the one whose Store step failed, so
# requiring success would skip exactly the build we want.
RUN_ID="$(gh run list --workflow build.yml --branch "$TAG" \
--limit 1 --json databaseId --jq '.[0].databaseId')"
if [[ -z "$RUN_ID" || "$RUN_ID" == "null" ]]; then
echo "::error::No build.yml run found for ${TAG}. Pass run_id explicitly."
exit 1
fi
echo "Resolved the most recent build for ${TAG}: $RUN_ID"
fi
echo "id=$RUN_ID" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
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- name: Download the Store package
shell: bash
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
RUN_ID: ${{ steps.run.outputs.id }}
run: |
mkdir -p artifacts/store
gh run download "$RUN_ID" --name openscreen-windows-store --dir artifacts/store

- name: Configure Microsoft Store CLI
uses: microsoft/microsoft-store-apppublisher@v1.1

- name: Submit the package to the Store
id: submit
shell: pwsh
env:
PRODUCT_ID: ${{ vars.MSSTORE_PRODUCT_ID }}
TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_AD_TENANT_ID }}
SELLER_ID: ${{ secrets.SELLER_ID }}
CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_CLIENT_ID }}
CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_SECRET }}
DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
run: |
# Secrets arrive through env, not through expression interpolation
# expanded straight into shell source.
msstore reconfigure `
--tenantId $env:TENANT_ID `
--sellerId $env:SELLER_ID `
--clientId $env:CLIENT_ID `
--clientSecret $env:CLIENT_SECRET

$packages = @(Get-ChildItem artifacts/store -Recurse -Include '*.appx','*.msix','*.msixupload')
if ($packages.Count -eq 0) { throw 'no package in the downloaded artifact' }
if ($packages.Count -ne 1) {
throw "expected one package, found $($packages.Count): refusing to guess which to submit"
}
$pkg = $packages[0]

# The positional argument is the project root, NOT the package: passing
# the package there is what failed v1.9.5 ("could not find a project
# publisher"). The package goes through --inputFile.
# Not $args: that is a PowerShell automatic variable.
$cmdArgs = @('publish', '.', '--inputFile', $pkg.FullName, '--appId', $env:PRODUCT_ID)
if ($env:DRY_RUN -eq 'true') {
# Leaves the submission in draft instead of sending it to
# certification: the only way to test this path without shipping.
$cmdArgs += '--noCommit'
Write-Output "DRY RUN: submitting $($pkg.Name) as a draft only"
} else {
Write-Output "Submitting $($pkg.Name) to product $env:PRODUCT_ID"
}
msstore @cmdArgs

# Report what happened, not what was configured — the mistake that let
# v1.9.5's failed submission read as a success (see 1617c930).
- name: Summary
if: always()
shell: bash
env:
SUBMIT: ${{ steps.submit.outcome }}
TAG: ${{ inputs.release_tag }}
DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
run: |
case "$SUBMIT" in
success)
if [[ "$DRY_RUN" == "true" ]]; then
echo "Draft submission created for ${TAG}; nothing was sent to certification." >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
else
echo "Submitted ${TAG} to the Store. Certification still has to pass before it goes live." >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
fi
;;
*)
echo "Store submission for ${TAG} did NOT happen (submit step: ${SUBMIT:-did not run}). The appx is unchanged; upload it by hand if this keeps failing." >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
;;
esac
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**Still unverified, and the next thing likely to break:** `--inputFile` is documented for `.msix` and `.msixupload`, and `build:win:store` produces an `.appx` (`electron-builder --win appx`). Whether the CLI accepts that extension is untested.

**There is no dry run, so do not reach for one.** The job is gated to stable tags, so the only ways to exercise it are a real release or a `workflow_dispatch` of `build.yml` with a stable `release_tag` — and neither is a rehearsal. `msstore publish` commits the submission unless it is given `-nc, --noCommit`, which this job does not pass, so a dispatch fired "just to see whether the `.appx` is accepted" creates a submission that enters certification and reaches users. Adding `--noCommit` behind a dispatch input is what a real validation path would need; until someone builds that, assume the Store needs the manual upload below, and treat the next stable release as the test.
### Retrying a Store submission

`publish-msstore.yml` submits an already-built appx on demand: `workflow_dispatch` with a stable `release_tag`, optionally a `run_id` (defaults to the most recent `build.yml` run for that tag), and a **`dry_run`** flag.

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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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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.
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**`dry_run: true` is the only safe way to test this path.** It passes `-nc, --noCommit`, which creates the submission and leaves it in draft instead of sending it to certification. Without it — and this is what `build.yml` does — `msstore publish` commits, so a dispatch fired "just to see whether the `.appx` is accepted" puts a build in front of users. Validate with the dry run first; submit for real only once it comes back clean.

Rotate by issuing a new client secret on the Entra registration, updating `AZURE_AD_APPLICATION_SECRET`, publishing one release to confirm, then deleting the old secret. The tenant, client and seller IDs change only when the registration or account does.

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