Add workflow for rolling back release #3033
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This PR adds a new workflow that can be manually triggered to create a rollback release. I.e. the workflow creates a new release which mirrors an older, previous release. Since we publish immutable releases, this is necessary to "revert" a broken release.
The process is:
main
. (For testing on a PR only: we checkout the repository at the PR head instead.)rollback_changelog.py
script. There is some duplication among the Python scripts that could be neater, but I didn't want to tackle big improvements there as part of this PR.prepare_changelog.py
script.package.json
changes targetingmain
. (For testing on a PR only: we skip creating the PR, but still push the branch.)Once the process has completed:
This is best reviewed commit-by-commit.
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