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Small QoL improvements for this repository:

  • Refer to initial workflow as Orchestration, and in che-release.yaml use the property orchestration: true to indicate that that project will be handle released by Orchestration workflow, which should include Che Operator and its dependencies.
    • Phases are no longer required parameter for release script/workflow, as they are determined automatically (you can still provide them, if you want to skip completed phases).
    • also dry-run parameter can be used for the GitHub workflow
  • Change the release-info.sh script, so that it can also use GITHUB_TOKEN (which could be a users personal access token, as long as it has repo scope), remove some duplicate code for selecting tokens. Also bad token should no longer be a cause of fetching no PRs with no errors
  • Remove some outdated information from README.md, and add a little more information about the current state of the repository

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Release orchestration can automatically select configured phases when none are specified.
    • Added a dry-run option to preview a release without running it.
    • Release phases can be marked for automatic orchestration.
  • Documentation
    • Updated release guidance with configuration, orchestration, monitoring, and operator review steps.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Release-status checks now report authentication or API quota issues before continuing.

Signed-off-by: Mykhailo Kuznietsov <mkuznets@redhat.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release workflow now supports automatic selection of configured orchestration phases and an optional dry run. Release scripts use shared GitHub token selection, and release-status startup applies stricter token and rate-limit checks. The README describes the updated release procedure.

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Release orchestration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Phase selection and workflow execution
.github/workflows/release-orchestrate-overall.yml, che-release.yaml, scripts/lib/yaml-parser.sh, scripts/make-release.sh, README.md
Phases 1–4 are marked for orchestration. When phases are omitted, the release script selects configured phases with orchestration: true and stops at the first requested phase without that setting. The workflow accepts optional phases and a dry-run input. The README documents the orchestration procedure.
GitHub token selection and validation
scripts/lib/github-api.sh, scripts/make-release.sh, scripts/release-info.sh
GitHub API helpers and release-status startup use shared token selection. Release-status startup now exits for missing or invalid tokens and for a zero remaining rate limit, and warns when fewer than 100 requests remain.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as release-orchestrate-overall.yml
  participant ReleaseScript as make-release.sh
  participant YAMLParser as yaml-parser.sh
  participant ReleaseConfig as che-release.yaml
  Workflow->>ReleaseScript: Pass version, optional phases, and dry-run flag
  ReleaseScript->>YAMLParser: Read orchestration setting for each phase
  YAMLParser->>ReleaseConfig: Read phase orchestration values
  ReleaseConfig-->>YAMLParser: Return configured phase values
  YAMLParser-->>ReleaseScript: Return orchestration settings
  ReleaseScript-->>Workflow: Run selected release phases
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cee36

The release workflow passes the phases input through eval, so shell syntax in that input can run inside a job that holds release tokens. The release-status report can also say the token is valid and then silently leave out pull requests when a repository-specific token is wrong or lacks access. Fix the command construction and repository token validation before merging. The README link and phase-order wording are smaller fixes.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/release-orchestrate-overall.yml:
- Line 99: Replace the `eval ${CMD}` invocation with safe argument handling:
pass dispatch inputs through environment variables, build an argument array, and
invoke `make-release.sh` with that array. Keep GitHub expression inputs out of
the shell source.

Review comments at @README.md:
- Line 22: Update the make-release.sh link in the README release-cycle
description to point to the script under scripts/ instead of the repository
root; leave the surrounding text and workflow link unchanged.
- Line 19: Update the README description of --phases to clarify that it selects
phases while the script processes them in configuration order, rather than
allowing a custom order. Preserve the existing note about verification of
artifacts for preceding phases.

Review comments at @scripts/release-info.sh:
- Around line 492-495: Update the check_rate_limit handling so a returned value
of 0 is reported as an exhausted rate limit rather than an authentication
failure. Handle that result before the generic nonzero-status exit, preserving
the authentication error for other failures.
- Line 483: Update token validation around get_github_token and
find_pull_requests so startup validates the token each repository request will
actually select, including CHE_INCUBATOR_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN for incubator
repositories, before reporting release-status API access is ready.
- Around line 490-492: Update token validation around check_rate_limit to verify
read access to the repositories used by the report, not just access to the
rate-limit endpoint. In find_pull_requests, propagate repository API errors
instead of converting them to an empty result, while preserving empty results
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CMD="${CMD} --dry-run"
fi

eval ${CMD}

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Remove eval from the release command.

If the phases input contains shell syntax, eval executes that syntax instead of passing it to make-release.sh. This creates a command-execution path in a job that exports GitHub tokens. Pass dispatch inputs through environment variables, build an argument array, and invoke the script with "${args[@]}". Keep inputs out of direct ${{ ... }} interpolation in shell source as part of the same fix.

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/release-orchestrate-overall.yml at line 99:
Replace the `eval ${CMD}` invocation with safe argument handling: pass dispatch
inputs through environment variables, build an argument array, and invoke
`make-release.sh` with that array. Keep GitHub expression inputs out of the
shell source.

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Comment thread README.md

## Projects overview
The Che projects that are part of the release cycle are orchestrated into a single action: [Orchestrate Overall Release](https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-release/actions/workflows/release-orchestrate-overall.yml), which runs [make-release.sh](https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-release/blob/main/make-release.sh).
It is intended to only work with phases that are specifically marked for orchestration with a respective `orchestration: true` field. Note that you can run this script with a custom phase order, e.g. if you are re-running the release, and all projects in phase 1 have already been released, although the script will still perform verification of existence of release artifacts for any preceding phases.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Describe --phases as a selection, not a custom order.

scripts/make-release.sh iterates phase keys from the configuration. For example, --phases 4,2 runs phase 2 before phase 4. Replace “custom phase order” with “selected phases” so operators do not rely on an order the script cannot provide.

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Review comment at @README.md at line 19:
Update the README description of --phases to clarify that it selects phases
while the script processes them in configuration order, rather than allowing a
custom order. Preserve the existing note about verification of artifacts for
preceding phases.

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Comment thread README.md
- [release-info.sh](https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-release/blob/main/scripts/release-info.sh) - a script, that is useful for monitoring the state of ongoing release. It will collect and print out the information about any associated release artifacts, pull requests and other useful information.

The projects covered by this workflow release container images, NPM artifacts, or CLI binaries versioned 7.yy.0 every sprint:
The Che projects that are part of the release cycle are orchestrated into a single action: [Orchestrate Overall Release](https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-release/actions/workflows/release-orchestrate-overall.yml), which runs [make-release.sh](https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-release/blob/main/make-release.sh).

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the make-release.sh link.

The link points to main/make-release.sh, but the script is at scripts/make-release.sh. Link to the script under scripts/ so readers can open the release entrypoint.

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Review comment at @README.md at line 22:
Update the make-release.sh link in the README release-cycle description to point
to the script under scripts/ instead of the repository root; leave the
surrounding text and workflow link unchanged.

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Comment thread scripts/release-info.sh
echo "[ERROR] CHE_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN is not set" >&2
echo "Set it with: export CHE_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN=<your-token>" >&2
# Check token availability
check_token=$(get_github_token)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Validate the tokens used for repository requests.

If both bot tokens are set, get_github_token selects CHE_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN here. For an incubator repository, find_pull_requests instead selects CHE_INCUBATOR_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN. Startup can therefore report successful validation while the repository request uses an invalid token. Validate each selected repository token before reporting that release-status API access is ready.

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Review comment at @scripts/release-info.sh at line 483:
Update token validation around get_github_token and find_pull_requests so
startup validates the token each repository request will actually select,
including CHE_INCUBATOR_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN for incubator repositories, before
reporting release-status API access is ready.

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Comment thread scripts/release-info.sh
Comment on lines +490 to +492
# Validate token by checking rate limit
debug_log "Validating GitHub token..."
remaining=$(check_rate_limit "$check_token") || {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not treat the rate-limit check as a repository-permission check.

A token can pass check_rate_limit without permission to read pull requests in a private repository. GitHub does not require permissions for the rate-limit endpoint, but its pull-request endpoint requires repository access. find_pull_requests then converts an API error into [], so release status can silently omit PRs despite the new validation. Check access to the repositories used by this report, and propagate repository API errors instead of reporting an empty result. (docs.github.com)

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Review comment at @scripts/release-info.sh around lines 490 - 492:
Update token validation around check_rate_limit to verify read access to the
repositories used by the report, not just access to the rate-limit endpoint. In
find_pull_requests, propagate repository API errors instead of converting them
to an empty result, while preserving empty results for successful requests with
no matching pull requests.

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Comment on lines +492 to +495
remaining=$(check_rate_limit "$check_token") || {
echo "[ERROR] Failed to authenticate with GitHub API" >&2
echo "One of the provided tokens (GITHUB_TOKEN, CHE_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN, or CHE_INCUBATOR_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN) may be invalid or expired" >&2
exit 1

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report exhausted rate limits as rate-limit errors.

If check_rate_limit returns 0, it also returns status 1. This branch exits with “Failed to authenticate” before Line 502 can report the exhausted rate limit. Handle 0 before the failure exit, or give check_rate_limit a distinct status for exhaustion.

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Review comment at @scripts/release-info.sh around lines 492 - 495:
Update the check_rate_limit handling so a returned value of 0 is reported as an
exhausted rate limit rather than an authentication failure. Handle that result
before the generic nonzero-status exit, preserving the authentication error for
other failures.

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