test: trim release workflow to reproduce release/v* branch-creation 422

Author: DmitriyLewen

.github/workflows/release-please.yaml

@@ -1,76 +1,23 @@
 name: Release Please
 
+# TEST BRANCH ONLY (test/repro-release-422): trimmed to reproduce the release/v*
+# branch-creation 422 (SLK-130224). The Tag release, label removal and release-please
+# jobs are stripped so no v* tag is created (which would trigger release.yaml/mkdocs).
+# Do not merge this workflow variant.
 on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
       - 'release/v*'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      version:
-        required: true
-        description: 'Release version without the "v" prefix (e.g., 0.51.0)'
-        type: string
+      - 'test/repro-release-422'
 
 jobs:
-  release-please:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-2404-2core
-    if: ${{ !startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'release:') && !github.event.inputs.version }}
-    steps:
-      # GITHUB_TOKEN cannot trigger workflows on PRs it creates, so the release PR
-      # would not run CI — generate a GitHub App installation token instead.
-      - name: Generate token
-        id: app-token
-        uses: actions/create-github-app-token@bcd2ba49218906704ab6c1aa796996da409d3eb1 # v3.2.0
-        with:
-          client-id: ${{ secrets.REPO_TRIVY_WRITE_GH_APP_CLIENT_ID }}
-          private-key: ${{ secrets.REPO_TRIVY_WRITE_GH_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-          permission-contents: write
-          permission-pull-requests: write
-
-      - name: Release Please
-        id: release
-        uses: googleapis/release-please-action@45996ed1f6d02564a971a2fa1b5860e934307cf7 # v5.0.0
-        with:
-          token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
-          target-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
-
-  manual-release-please:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-2404-2core
-    if: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
-    steps:
-      # GITHUB_TOKEN cannot trigger workflows on PRs it creates, so the release PR
-      # would not run CI — generate a GitHub App installation token instead.
-      - name: Generate token
-        id: app-token
-        uses: actions/create-github-app-token@bcd2ba49218906704ab6c1aa796996da409d3eb1 # v3.2.0
-        with:
-          client-id: ${{ secrets.REPO_TRIVY_WRITE_GH_APP_CLIENT_ID }}
-          private-key: ${{ secrets.REPO_TRIVY_WRITE_GH_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-          permission-contents: write
-          permission-pull-requests: write
-
-      - name: Install Release Please CLI
-        run: npm install release-please -g
-
-      - name: Release Please
-        env:
-          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
-          APP_TOKEN: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
-        run: |
-          release-please release-pr --repo-url="$GITHUB_SERVER_URL/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" \
-            --token="$APP_TOKEN" \
-            --release-as="$RELEASE_VERSION" \
-            --target-branch="$GITHUB_REF_NAME"
-
   release-tag:
     runs-on: ubuntu-2404-2core
     # Skip the branch-creation push (created == true) to avoid re-running on the duplicate tag.
     if: ${{ startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'release:') && !github.event.created }}
     steps:
-      # Since skip-github-release is specified, the outputs of googleapis/release-please-action cannot be used.
-      # Therefore, we need to parse the version ourselves.
-      - name: Extract version and PR number from commit message
+      - name: Extract version from commit message
         id: extract_info
         shell: bash
         env:
@@ -79,11 +26,8 @@ jobs:
           # Take only the first line to avoid git trailers (e.g. Co-authored-by) breaking $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           FIRST_LINE=${COMMIT_MESSAGE%%$'\n'*}
           echo "version=$( echo "$FIRST_LINE" | sed 's/^release: v\([0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\).*$/\1/' )" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "pr_number=$( echo "$FIRST_LINE" | sed 's/.*(\#\([0-9]\+\)).*$/\1/' )" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "release_branch=release/v$( echo "$FIRST_LINE" | sed 's/^release: v\([0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\).*$/\1/' )" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
-      # GITHUB_TOKEN cannot trigger the release workflow on the created tag —
-      # generate a GitHub App installation token instead.
       - name: Generate token
         id: app-token
         if: ${{ steps.extract_info.outputs.version }}
@@ -93,21 +37,6 @@ jobs:
           private-key: ${{ secrets.REPO_TRIVY_WRITE_GH_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           permission-contents: write
 
-      - name: Tag release
-        if: ${{ steps.extract_info.outputs.version }}
-        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
-        env:
-          VERSION: ${{ steps.extract_info.outputs.version }}
-        with:
-          github-token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }} # To trigger another workflow
-          script: |
-            await github.rest.git.createRef({
-              owner: context.repo.owner,
-              repo: context.repo.repo,
-              ref: `refs/tags/v${process.env.VERSION}`,
-              sha: context.sha
-            });
-
       # When v0.50.0 is released, a release branch "release/v0.50" is created.
       - name: Create release branch for patch versions
         if: ${{ endsWith(steps.extract_info.outputs.version, '.0') }}
@@ -125,23 +54,3 @@ jobs:
               ref: `refs/heads/${releaseBranch}`,
               sha: context.sha
             });
-
-
-      # Since skip-github-release is specified, googleapis/release-please-action doesn't delete the label from PR.
-      # This label prevents the subsequent PRs from being created. Therefore, we need to delete it ourselves.
-      # cf. https://github.com/googleapis/release-please?tab=readme-ov-file#release-please-bot-does-not-create-a-release-pr-why
-      - name: Remove the label from PR
-        if: ${{ steps.extract_info.outputs.pr_number }}
-        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
-        env:
-          PR_NUMBER: ${{ steps.extract_info.outputs.pr_number }}
-        with:
-          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          script: |
-            const prNumber = parseInt(process.env.PR_NUMBER, 10);
-            github.rest.issues.removeLabel({
-              owner: context.repo.owner,
-              repo: context.repo.repo,
-              issue_number: prNumber,
-              name: 'autorelease: pending'
-            });