ci: bundle Mkdocs site into Releases#41355
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As we now perform the Mkdocs build as part of the main repo, we can now attach the docs site build into the GitHub Release artifacts as part of our release pipeline. For folks who are running versions behind the "bleeding edge" of Renovate, this is very useful, as they can now grab a copy of the built documentation for their given Renovate version. This allows folks to take the `mkdocs-site.tgz` and upload it to static hosting, without restoring to workarounds[0] that can make it more difficult. Because we're now building the docs site as part of the release, we need to upload the built artifact to then be used by our deploy step. As the deploy step no longer needs to build the docs site, we can simplify this. However, if the release hasn't occurred (because there are no commit(s) that need a release right now) we still need to rebuild the docs site, in case there are docs-only changes. [0]: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/11/19/renovate-private-docs/ Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <jamie.tanna+github-copilot@mend.io>
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OK, let's give this a go - if it doesn't work we can revert Worst case, we'll try a couple of attempts, and revert back before EOD today |
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It's run in the case that no release is made (https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/actions/runs/22231825236/job/64313402746) - I'll keep an eye on when a release is made |
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As we now perform the Mkdocs build as part of the main repo, we can
now attach the docs site build into the GitHub Release artifacts as part
of our release pipeline.
For folks who are running versions behind the "bleeding edge" of
Renovate, this is very useful, as they can now grab a copy of the built
documentation for their given Renovate version.
This allows folks to take the
mkdocs-site.tgzand upload it to statichosting, without restoring to workarounds0 that can make it more
difficult.
Because we're now building the docs site as part of the release, we need
to upload the built artifact to then be used by our deploy step.
As the deploy step no longer needs to build the docs site, we can
simplify this.
However, if the release hasn't occurred (because there are no commit(s)
that need a release right now) we still need to rebuild the docs site,
in case there are docs-only changes.
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