feat: added gh actions support for publishing alpha releases

branch name example release/1.14.6-alpha.0

.github/workflows/build-binaries.yml

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   # we want to publish on "push to master" only. When we don't want to publish, we want to upload artefacts
   SHOULD_PUBLISH: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+  SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/release') && contains(github.ref, '-alpha.') }}
 
 jobs:
   build_linux:
@@ -61,20 +62,20 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build but do not publish ${{ matrix.pkg_to_build }}
         # we want this to run always, except on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' && env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'false'  }}
         run: |
           sed -i 's/"target": \["deb"\]/"target": "${{ matrix.pkg_to_build }}"/g' package.json && yarn build-release
 
       - name: Upload artefacts ${{ matrix.pkg_to_build }}
         # we want this to run always, except on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' && env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'false'  }}
         uses: ./actions/upload_prod_artefacts
         with:
           upload_prefix: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.pkg_to_build }}
 
       - name: Build & publish ${{ matrix.pkg_to_build }}
         # we want this to run only when on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'true' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'true' || env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'true' }}
         run: |
           sed -i 's/"target": \["deb"\]/"target": "${{ matrix.pkg_to_build }}"/g' package.json && yarn build-release-publish
 
@@ -99,19 +100,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build but do not publish
         # we want this to run always, except on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' && env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'false'  }}
         run: yarn build-release
 
       - name: Upload artefacts
         # we want this to run always, except on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' && env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'false'  }}
         uses: ./actions/upload_prod_artefacts
         with:
           upload_prefix: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}
 
       - name: Build & publish
         # we want this to run only when on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'true' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'true' || env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'true' }}
         run: yarn build-release-publish # No other args needed for windows publish
 
   # We want a mac arm64 build, and according to this https://github.com/actions/runner-images#available-images macos-14 is always arm64
@@ -142,21 +143,21 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build but do not publish
         # we want this to run always, except on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' && env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'false'  }}
         run: |
           source ./build/setup-mac-certificate.sh
           yarn build-release --config.mac.bundleVersion=${{ github.ref }}
 
       - name: Upload artefacts
         # we want this to run always, except on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'false' && env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'false'  }}
         uses: ./actions/upload_prod_artefacts
         with:
           upload_prefix: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}
 
       - name: Build & publish
         # we want this to run only when on "push" to "master"
-        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'true' }}
+        if: ${{ env.SHOULD_PUBLISH == 'true' || env.SHOULD_PUBLISH_ALPHA == 'true' }}
         run: |
           source ./build/setup-mac-certificate.sh
           yarn build-release-publish --config.mac.bundleVersion=${{ github.ref }}