From e139fae6d4b367f53467825dcc16180171dd2d8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nelson Osacky <nelson.osacky@sentry.io>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:17:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ci(build): Publish snapshots to GitHub Releases instead of
 npm

Upload platform binaries as prerelease GitHub Release assets instead
of publishing npm packages. This simplifies the snapshot pipeline by
removing the npm dependency and makes binaries directly downloadable
from GitHub.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/snapshot.yml | 47 ++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml b/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml
index 80ed1a2586..a587caca2d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/snapshot.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ on:
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
-  packages: write
 
 jobs:
   prepare:
@@ -67,46 +66,34 @@ jobs:
       checkout-ref: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.ref }}
     secrets: inherit
 
-  publish-npm:
-    name: Publish to npm
+  publish-github-release:
+    name: Publish GitHub Release
     needs: [prepare, build]
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@6044e13b5dc448c55e2357c09f80417699197238 # 6.2.0
-        with:
-          node-version: '20.10.0'
-          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
-
-      - name: Download npm binary distributions
+      - name: Download binaries
         uses: actions/download-artifact@70fc10c6e5e1ce46ad2ea6f2b72d43f7d47b13c3 # 8.0.0
         with:
-          name: artifact-npm-binary-distributions
-          path: npm-distributions
+          pattern: artifact-bin-*
+          merge-multiple: true
 
-      - name: Download node package
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@70fc10c6e5e1ce46ad2ea6f2b72d43f7d47b13c3 # 8.0.0
-        with:
-          name: artifact-pkg-node
-          path: node-package
-
-      - name: Publish platform packages
+      - name: Create GitHub Release
         env:
-          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          for pkg in npm-distributions/*/*.tgz; do
-            echo "Publishing $pkg"
-            npm publish "$pkg" --tag snapshot
-          done
-
-      - name: Publish main package
-        env:
-          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          VERSION: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
+          REF: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.ref }}
         run: |
-          npm publish node-package/*.tgz --tag snapshot
+          gh release create "$VERSION" \
+            --target "$REF" \
+            --prerelease \
+            --title "$VERSION" \
+            --notes "Snapshot build from master at ${VERSION##*.}." \
+            sentry-cli-*
 
   cleanup:
     name: Cleanup
-    needs: [prepare, publish-npm]
+    needs: [prepare, publish-github-release]
     if: always()
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps: