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fix(npm): wait for npm to apply each publish, and drop the one-time @gitlawb/zero steps - #1145

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Summary

Follow-up to #1142 after the 0.10.0 release.

Wait for npm to apply each publish. npm applies a publish asynchronously: npm publish returns once the upload is accepted, and the version appears later. In 0.10.0 the @twigpine/zero wrapper appeared 9 seconds after publish-packages.sh stopped checking, and the last platform payload about ten minutes after its upload. Two problems resulted:

  • The wrapper was visible before four of its five platform payloads. Installs in that window resolved aliases that 404 and fell back to the GitHub-release download. Ordering the uploads doesn't order what npm shows.
  • The final latest check gave up after 25 seconds and failed the job although every publish landed. That also skipped the @gitlawb/zero steps until a re-run.

publish-packages.sh now waits until npm shows every platform version before it publishes the wrapper, then waits until latest is the wrapper version. One deadline bounds the waits (ZERO_NPM_PUBLISH_WAIT_TIMEOUT, default 30 minutes). On timeout it fails before the wrapper goes out and names what npm never showed. These lookups treat an error as "not yet"; the skip decision still stops on anything but E404 (#1142 review).

Drop the one-time bridge steps. The two steps that published 0.10.0 once more as @gitlawb/zero have done their job. @gitlawb/zero is now deprecated on all 46 versions and has no trusted publisher. docs/NPM_PACKAGING.md and the comments that pointed at those steps now describe what happened. The Go and wrapper handling of the old name stays, since only a build installed under it can trigger it.

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Internal change (team development cycle); no community issue.

Checklist

  • go build ./..., go vet ./..., and go test ./... pass locally (macOS arm64).
  • gofmt clean (make fmt-check).
  • Tests added/updated (-race on internal/npmwrapper, internal/update).
  • UI changes: n/a.

Also: zero-release build and smoke pass, make vulncheck finds nothing, git diff --check is clean. make lint-static has no findings in the touched packages (4 pre-existing elsewhere).

The test fake can now apply a publish only after a number of later lookups, and records which aliased versions were missing when the wrapper was published. Against the script as released in v0.10.0, both new tests fail the way the release did:

  • TestPublishPackagesWaitsForNpmToApplyEachPublish: exit = 1 while npm applied the publishes late
  • TestPublishPackagesGivesUpWhenNpmNeverAppliesAPublish: published zero-linux-x64,wrapper, want only the platform payload (the wrapper must wait for it)

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  • Improvements
    • npm releases now wait for platform packages to appear in the registry before publishing the wrapper, then wait for the wrapper version to become the latest release.
    • Registry visibility checks share a 30-minute timeout. If a published version remains unavailable past the limit, the release process stops.
    • The one-time legacy-name publishing steps have been removed; existing legacy package versions remain available.
  • Documentation
    • Updated npm packaging and migration notes to reflect the release process and legacy package status.

…gitlawb/zero steps

npm applies a publish asynchronously: `npm publish` returns once the upload
is accepted, and the version appears later. In the 0.10.0 release the
@twigpine/zero wrapper appeared 9 seconds after publish-packages.sh stopped
checking for it, and the last platform payload about ten minutes after its
upload. Two things went wrong:

- The wrapper became visible before four of its five platform payloads, so
  installs in that window resolved aliases that 404 and fell back to the
  GitHub-release download. Ordering the uploads does not order what npm
  shows.
- The final `latest` check gave up after 25 seconds and failed the job even
  though every publish landed, which also skipped the @gitlawb/zero steps
  until a re-run.

publish-packages.sh now waits until npm shows every platform version before
it publishes the wrapper, then waits until `latest` is the wrapper version.
One deadline bounds the waits (ZERO_NPM_PUBLISH_WAIT_TIMEOUT, default 30
minutes). On timeout it fails before the wrapper goes out and says what npm
never showed. These lookups treat an error as "not yet", unlike the skip
decision, which still stops on anything but E404.

The test fake can now apply a publish only after a number of later lookups,
and records which aliased versions were missing when the wrapper was
published. Against the script as released in v0.10.0, the two new tests fail
the way the release did: the job exits 1 although everything landed, and the
wrapper goes out while its platform payload is not visible.

The two release steps that published 0.10.0 once more as @gitlawb/zero have
done their job and are removed; docs/NPM_PACKAGING.md and the comments that
pointed at them now describe what happened. The Go and wrapper handling of
the old name stays, since only a build installed under it can trigger it.
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  • [pass] Diff hygiene: git diff --check
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Changed files (6): .github/workflows/release-artifacts.yml, docs/NPM_PACKAGING.md, internal/npmwrapper/publish_test.go, internal/update/installmethod.go, scripts/npm/build-platform-packages.mjs, scripts/npm/publish-packages.sh

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The npm publish script waits for platform versions to appear before publishing the wrapper, then waits for the wrapper version to become latest. The release workflow no longer runs the legacy-name bridge publishing steps.

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Registry visibility waits
scripts/npm/publish-packages.sh, internal/npmwrapper/publish_test.go, docs/NPM_PACKAGING.md, .github/workflows/release-artifacts.yml
The script validates wait settings and uses a shared 30-minute default timeout for registry visibility waits. Tests cover delayed visibility, timeout before wrapper publication, decimal parsing of a leading-zero timeout, and invalid settings. Documentation and the workflow comment describe the publishing sequence.
Legacy-name publishing removal
.github/workflows/release-artifacts.yml, docs/NPM_PACKAGING.md, internal/update/installmethod.go, scripts/npm/build-platform-packages.mjs
The workflow’s conditional legacy-name build and publish flow was removed. Documentation and comments describe the completed 0.10.0 publication and remaining old-name handling.

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  PublishScript->>npm: Publish platform versions
  PublishScript->>npm: Check platform version visibility
  npm-->>PublishScript: Report platform versions as visible
  PublishScript->>npm: Publish wrapper
  PublishScript->>npm: Check wrapper latest tag
  npm-->>PublishScript: Report wrapper as latest
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Review comments at @docs/NPM_PACKAGING.md:
- Around line 189-190: Update the `@gitlawb/zero` statement in the legacy
publishing documentation to say that this release workflow will not publish the
package again; do not claim that another version is impossible to publish or
that the package cannot receive another version.

Review comments at @scripts/npm/publish-packages.sh:
- Line 131: Validate ZERO_NPM_PUBLISH_WAIT_TIMEOUT as a supported non-negative
integer and convert it to decimal before calculating deadline, so leading-zero
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…publishing claim

ZERO_NPM_PUBLISH_WAIT_TIMEOUT went into Bash arithmetic as typed. A leading
zero reads as octal (0600 waited 384 seconds), and 08 is an arithmetic error
that, in a script, does not stop it: Bash prints the error, leaves the
deadline unset and carries on, so the run only died at its first wait, after
the platform payloads were published. A negative timeout ended the wait
before it started, and a bad ZERO_NPM_PUBLISH_RETRY_DELAY only failed at the
first sleep, also after publishing began.

Both settings are now checked before anything is published: whole seconds
only, converted with 10# so a leading zero is decimal, bounded before the
conversion, and capped (timeout 86400, delay 600). A bad value fails with
the variable's name.

TestPublishPackagesReadsTheWaitTimeoutAsDecimal makes the script wait, which
is where the old code broke: against the reviewed script it publishes the
platform payload and then exits 1 on "08: value too great for base".
TestPublishPackagesRejectsAnInvalidWaitSetting covers -5, abc, 1e3, an
over-range and an overflowing timeout, and a non-numeric delay; the old
script published with five of them and crashed on the sixth with
"abc: unbound variable".

docs/NPM_PACKAGING.md said nothing could publish @gitlawb/zero again.
Removing the trusted publisher stops this workflow; a maintainer could
still publish by hand, and the doc now says that.
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