Pre-requirements

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This setup assumes you have [Yarn][Yarn], [Volta][volta] and [pre-commit][pre-commit] installed.

After cloning the repo, run

# Install or update application dependencies
make

Development of getsentry/action-release

This document aims to provide guidelines for maintainers and contains information on how to develop and test this action. For info on how to release changes, follow publishing-a-release.

The action is a composite GitHub Action.

On Linux runners, the action executes the underlying JavaScript script via a Docker image we publish.

For Mac OS and Windows runners, the action cannot run the Docker image and instead installs the @sentry/cli dependency corresponding to the architecture of the runner and then executes the underlying JavaScript distribution.

This split in architecture is done to optimize the run-time of the action but at the same time support non-Linux runners.

This action runs fastest on Linux runners.

Development

The action is using @sentry/cli under the hood and is written in TypeScript. See src/main.ts to get started.

Options to the action are exposed via action.yml, changes that impact options need to be documented in the README.md.

Note

Actions have to be exposed in 3 places in action.yml

  1. Under the inputs field - These are the actual inputs exposed to users
  2. Under the env field inside the Run docker image step. All inputs have to be mapped from inputs to INPUT_X env variables.
  3. Under the env field inside the `Run Release Action

Telemetry for internal development is collected using @sentry/node, see src/telemetry.ts for utilities.

Development steps

Note

Contributors will need to create an internal integration in their Sentry org and need to be an admin. See #Prerequisites.

Members of this repo will not have to set anything up since the integration is already set-up. Just open the PR and you will see a release created for your PR.

  1. Create a branch
  2. Run yarn set-docker-tag-from-branch to set a docker tag based on your github branch name. This is important so that the action gets its own Docker image, allowing you to test the action in a different repo.
  3. Make changes
  4. If possible, add unit and E2E tests (inside .github/workflows/build.yml)
  5. Run yarn install to install deps
  6. Run yarn build to build the action
  7. Commit the changes and the build inside dist/

If you forget to run yarn set-docker-tag-from-branch the repo's pre-commit hooks will do it for you and fail the commit. Just add the changes to staging and commit again.

Testing

You can run unit tests with yarn test.

Troubleshooting

  • If the verify-dist action fails for your PR, you likely forgot to commit the build output. Run yarn install and yarn build and commit the dist/ folder.