After Release workflow (gofiber/fiber)

The After Release workflow from gofiber/fiber, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: gofiber/fiber.github/workflows/after-release.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the After Release workflow from the gofiber/fiber repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: After Release

on:
  release:
    types: [published]
  repository_dispatch:
    types: [after-release]
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  parse-tag:
    if: github.event_name == 'release'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 30
    outputs:
      major: ${{ steps.parse.outputs.major }}
    steps:
      - name: Extract major version from tag
        id: parse
        run: echo "major=${TAG%%.*}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
        env:
          TAG: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}

  move-milestone:
    needs: parse-tag
    if: github.event_name == 'release'
    permissions:
      contents: read
      issues: write
      pull-requests: write
    uses: ./.github/workflows/move-closed-milestone-items.yml
    with:
      source_milestone: ${{ needs.parse-tag.outputs.major }}
      target_milestone: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
    secrets:
      ISSUE_PR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ISSUE_PR_TOKEN }}

  notify:
    uses: gofiber/.github/.github/workflows/after-release.yml@main
    with:
      skip-wait: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
      repos: |
        - gofiber/contrib
        - gofiber/storage
        - gofiber/template
        - gofiber/cli
        - gofiber/boilerplate
        - gofiber/recipes
    secrets:
      dispatch-token: ${{ secrets.DISPATCH_TOKEN }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: After Release
 
on:
  release:
    types: [published]
  repository_dispatch:
    types: [after-release]
  workflow_dispatch:
 
permissions:
  contents: read
 
jobs:
  parse-tag:
    if: github.event_name == 'release'
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    timeout-minutes: 30
    outputs:
      major: ${{ steps.parse.outputs.major }}
    steps:
      - name: Extract major version from tag
        id: parse
        run: echo "major=${TAG%%.*}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
        env:
          TAG: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
 
  move-milestone:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    needs: parse-tag
    if: github.event_name == 'release'
    permissions:
      contents: read
      issues: write
      pull-requests: write
    uses: ./.github/workflows/move-closed-milestone-items.yml
    with:
      source_milestone: ${{ needs.parse-tag.outputs.major }}
      target_milestone: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
    secrets:
      ISSUE_PR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ISSUE_PR_TOKEN }}
 
  notify:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    uses: gofiber/.github/.github/workflows/after-release.yml@main
    with:
      skip-wait: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
      repos: |
        - gofiber/contrib
        - gofiber/storage
        - gofiber/template
        - gofiber/cli
        - gofiber/boilerplate
        - gofiber/recipes
    secrets:
      dispatch-token: ${{ secrets.DISPATCH_TOKEN }}

What changed

Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

This workflow runs 3 jobs per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.