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fix: handle race condition in release promote job#62

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@AaronFeledy AaronFeledy commented Feb 22, 2026

Problem

When a fresh (non-prerelease) release is created, GitHub fires both published and released events simultaneously. The promote job (triggered by released) races the deploy job (triggered by published) and tries to npm dist-tag add before the package is published to npm.

Fix

Add a retry loop that waits up to 5 minutes for the package version to appear on npm before promoting. If the version never appears, the job fails with a clear error instead of silently succeeding.

This is better than simply skipping when the version doesn't exist (as in lando/phpmyadmin#72), because it still catches genuine failures — e.g., if a prerelease promotion runs and the version is truly missing.

Affected repos

This same fix is being rolled out to all Lando repos with this release workflow pattern.

Closes any race condition failures on the promote job.


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Low Risk
CI-only change that adds retries and clearer failure behavior; main risk is delaying or failing the promote job if npm is slow/unavailable.

Overview
Fixes a race in the release workflow where promote could run before deploy finished publishing to npm.

The promote job now polls npm view for up to 5 minutes before running npm dist-tag add ... latest, and fails with an explicit error if the version never appears (instead of attempting promotion immediately).

Written by Cursor Bugbot for commit b8aae06. This will update automatically on new commits. Configure here.

When a fresh non-prerelease is published, GitHub fires both 'published'
and 'released' events simultaneously. The promote job races the deploy
job and fails because the package isn't on npm yet.

Add a retry loop (up to 5 min) so promote waits for the package to
appear, while still failing loudly if it never does.
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