Publishing simple_module_python

This repo publishes 13 Python packages to PyPI and 3 JS packages to npm in one lockstep version bump. Releases are driven entirely from GitHub Actions — no tokens live on your laptop.

• Python packages (simple_module_*) → pypi.org
• JS packages (@simple-module-py/*) → npmjs.com
• Auth: OIDC Trusted Publishing on both PyPI and npm — no long-lived tokens
• Entry point: Actions → release → Run workflow

TL;DR — already set up? Cut a release in 3 clicks

1. Ensure main is green (make lint && make test).
2. Actions → release → Run workflow → pick bump (patch / minor / major), leave version blank → Run.
3. After it finishes, write release notes on the auto-created vX.Y.Z tag on GitHub.

For the very first time, or if any of the above is unfamiliar, keep reading.

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First-time setup (once per registry account)

You need to set up Trusted Publisher entries on PyPI and npm before running the workflow. These entries tell each registry: "trust OIDC tokens minted by this exact GitHub Actions workflow." No tokens are exchanged — the registry validates the token's GitHub-issued claims at publish time.

1. PyPI

For each of the 13 published Python project names, on pypi.org:

1. Log in as the owner account (antosubash).
2. Go to Your account → Publishing (or click "Add a new pending publisher" if the project doesn't exist yet).
3. Fill in:
   • PyPI Project Name: the exact name, e.g. simple_module_core
   • Owner: antosubash
   • Repository name: simple_module_python
   • Workflow name: release.yml
   • Environment name: pypi
4. Save.

Repeat for every project in this list:

simple_module_cli
simple_module_core
simple_module_db
simple_module_hosting
simple_module_test
simple_module_auth
simple_module_background_tasks
simple_module_dashboard
simple_module_feature_flags
simple_module_file_storage
simple_module_permissions
simple_module_settings
simple_module_users

(simple_module_audit_log and simple_module_keycloak live in the workspace and get version-bumped, but are not in the publish-pypi matrix — they are not published to PyPI.)

Pending publishers: if a project doesn't exist on PyPI yet, "pending publisher" is the right flow — you're reserving the project name and wiring up auth in one step. The first successful publish creates the project and promotes the pending publisher to a real one.

2. npm

npm publishes also use OIDC Trusted Publishing (no NPM_TOKEN secret). On npmjs.com:

1. Sign in as the owner.

2. Create the @simple-module-py organization (Settings → "Create a new organization"). This is a one-time step.

3. For each of the 3 npm packages (@simple-module-py/ui, /i18n, /tsconfig), open the package's Settings → Trusted Publisher page and add a GitHub Actions publisher:

   • Repository: antosubash/simple_module_python
   • Workflow filename: release.yml
   • Environment: npm

   For a brand-new scoped package that doesn't exist yet, create it with an initial manual npm publish (or reserve it) before the Trusted Publisher entry can be attached.

3. GitHub Environments

In the repo's Settings → Environments → New environment, create two environments — they match the environment: fields used by the release workflow jobs:

• pypi
• npm

No secrets or variables are needed on either environment — both publish via OIDC. Optionally, add a deployment-protection rule requiring a manual approval on both so every release gets a human click before it goes live.

4. Branch protection

The release workflow pushes a version-bump commit + tag directly to main. If branch protection blocks bots, pick one:

• Add github-actions[bot] to the allowed-pushers list on the main branch protection rule, or
• Create a fine-grained PAT scoped to this repo's contents: write, store it as repo secret RELEASE_PUSH_TOKEN — the workflow uses it automatically if present.

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Cutting a release

Step 1. Confirm main is green

make lint
make test

Both should pass locally. CI should be green on every PR into main.

Step 2. Pick a version

Every workspace package bumps in lockstep to the same version — scripts/bump_version.py walks every framework/*, modules/*, and packages/* manifest (so the two unpublished modules, audit_log and keycloak, stay in sync too). Only the 13 PyPI + 3 npm packages are then published. We follow a relaxed SemVer during the 0.x phase:

Situation	Input
Bug fix, docs, internal refactor	bump: patch
New feature, no breaking changes	bump: minor
Breaking change (post-1.0)	bump: major
Pre-release rehearsal or specific number	version: e.g. 0.2.0rc1

The workflow derives the next version from the current framework/core/pyproject.toml version when you pick a bump level. If you set version explicitly, it overrides the bump choice. Version strings must match ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+([.-]?(a|b|rc|alpha|beta)[0-9]*)?$.

Step 3. Run the release

1. Go to Actions → release → Run workflow.
2. bump: patch (default), minor, or major. Leave version blank to use it.
3. version: optional — set to an explicit number (e.g. 0.2.0rc1) to override the bump.
4. Run workflow.

What happens:

• resolve computes the final version and shares it with every downstream job.
• build rewrites every version, runs uv build --all-packages (a wheel + sdist for every buildable workspace package) plus the 3 npm tarballs, and uploads them as artifacts.
• publish-pypi fans out 13 parallel jobs (the matrix package list), each filtering the artifact set down to one package and publishing its wheel+sdist pair via OIDC Trusted Publishing.
• publish-npm fans out 3 parallel jobs publishing @simple-module-py/* tarballs via OIDC Trusted Publishing. Each job verifies the tarball's package.json is actually scoped to @simple-module-py/* before invoking npm publish.
• finalize re-applies the bump, commits release: vX.Y.Z, tags it, and pushes both.

Expected wall time: 5–8 minutes.

Step 4. GitHub Release notes

The finalize job pushes the vX.Y.Z tag and a follow-up step (gh release create "v${VERSION}" --title "v${VERSION}" --generate-notes) automatically creates a GitHub Release with autofilled notes from the commits since the previous tag.

If you want to edit the body, open the draft at Releases and tweak it after the workflow finishes. To regenerate the auto-notes locally:

gh release view vX.Y.Z --json body
gh release edit vX.Y.Z --notes-file - < notes.md

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Local pre-flight (optional but recommended)

Before running the workflow, you can rehearse the whole pipeline offline. Nothing leaves your machine:

# 1. Check every workspace package is currently at 0.0.1 (or your expected base)
uv run python scripts/bump_version.py 0.0.1 --check

# 2. Dry-run the bump (writes nothing, shows what would change)
uv run python scripts/bump_version.py 0.0.2 --dry-run

# 3. Actually bump (commit on a throwaway branch if you want to keep it)
uv run python scripts/bump_version.py 0.0.2
npm install --package-lock-only

# 4. Validate metadata + READMEs
uv run python scripts/check_metadata.py
uv run python scripts/check_readmes.py

# 5. Build everything
rm -rf dist-py dist-npm
uv build --all-packages --out-dir dist-py
mkdir -p dist-npm && for p in packages/*/; do npm pack "$p" --pack-destination dist-npm; done

# 6. Sanity-check contents
ls dist-py/ | wc -l        # expect 30 (a wheel + sdist for each of the 15 buildable packages; only 13 are later published)
ls dist-npm/ | wc -l       # expect 3

# 7. Revert (if you don't actually want to release)
git reset --hard HEAD~1

If step 5 fails for any package, the workflow will fail the same way — fix it before dispatching.

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Troubleshooting

Workflow fails at "Trusted publisher not configured"

The PyPI project's Trusted Publisher entry is missing or mismatched. Common causes:

• Wrong workflow filename (must be exactly release.yml, not the full path)
• Wrong environment name (must be exactly pypi)
• Repository owner typo

Fix the entry on the registry, re-run the failed job.

npm publish fails with 401/403 or a weird git error

• 401/403 → the package's npm Trusted Publisher entry is missing or mismatched (wrong repo, workflow filename, or environment), or the npm GitHub environment / id-token: write permission isn't wired up. Fix the entry on npm and re-run. (npm publishes via OIDC now — there is no NPM_TOKEN secret to rotate.)
• git ls-remote / Permission denied (publickey) → npm is mis-parsing the tarball path. This is guarded for in the workflow (the path is prefixed with ./ and the package name is verified against @simple-module-py/<pkg>). If you see it again, the guard has regressed.

git push fails in "Commit, tag, push" step

Branch protection is blocking github-actions[bot]. Add the RELEASE_PUSH_TOKEN secret (see First-time setup → Branch protection) and re-dispatch the workflow. The token is consumed automatically when present.

PyPI publishes succeeded, npm publishes failed (partial release)

PyPI is immutable — you cannot re-upload 0.0.2 under any circumstance. Options:

1. Yank the bad PyPI versions via the PyPI project UI (doesn't delete, but hides them from pip install).
2. Unpublish the good npm versions within 72 hours: npm unpublish @simple-module-py/<pkg>@0.0.2 for each.
3. Fix the root cause.
4. Bump to 0.0.3 and re-run.

A new module was added — how do I include it in releases?

1. Version-bumping is automatic — scripts/bump_version.py discovers any modules/*/pyproject.toml, so a new module is picked up with no edit.
2. Add it to .github/workflows/release.yml under publish-pypi → strategy.matrix.package (only matrix packages are published; that's how audit_log/keycloak stay unpublished).
3. Create the PyPI Trusted Publisher entry for its project name.
4. Add a substantive README (check_readmes.py will fail otherwise).

scripts/check_metadata.py and scripts/check_readmes.py run in make lint and will tell you what's missing.

I need to rotate or recover the owner account

Trusted Publishing is tied to the GitHub repo, not any personal account — so both PyPI and npm account handovers are the usual account-transfer flow at each registry, not a code change. The Trusted Publisher entries stay valid as long as the repo, workflow filename, and environment names are unchanged. Update the "Project names" section of this doc afterward.

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Reference — what's published where

Registry	Package	Source
PyPI	simple_module_cli	framework/cli/ — ships the smpy / simple-module CLI
PyPI	simple_module_core	framework/core/
PyPI	simple_module_db	framework/db/
PyPI	simple_module_hosting	framework/hosting/ — ships the sm-host CLI
PyPI	simple_module_test	framework/testing/ — pytest plugin
PyPI	simple_module_auth	modules/auth/
PyPI	simple_module_background_tasks	modules/background_tasks/
PyPI	simple_module_dashboard	modules/dashboard/
PyPI	simple_module_feature_flags	modules/feature_flags/
PyPI	simple_module_file_storage	modules/file_storage/
PyPI	simple_module_permissions	modules/permissions/
PyPI	simple_module_settings	modules/settings/
PyPI	simple_module_users	modules/users/
npm	@simple-module-py/ui	packages/ui/
npm	@simple-module-py/i18n	packages/i18n/
npm	@simple-module-py/tsconfig	packages/tsconfig/

Questions

File an issue: https://github.com/antosubash/simple_module_python/issues