Release runs were fully cold every time: ~13s npm install, ~39s full cgo/WebKit compile, and ~34s rebuilding the Wails CLI from source on each tag. Now that the runner cache backend is reachable again, persist all three across runs. Expected total drops from ~3.5 min toward ~2.5 min with apt as the remaining floor.
- Set up Node: cache npm keyed on frontend/package-lock.json, so the npm install inside wails build stops fetching cold
- New Cache Go build cache step: setup-go only persists modules (GOMODCACHE); this persists compiled packages (GOCACHE) with a go.sum-hashed key plus a version-prefix restore-key fallback, turning the WebKit compile incremental from the second run on
- Wails CLI: split install into cache (key wails-v2.15.0-Linux, bump with the version pin), conditional go install on miss, and an unconditional PATH step so cache hits still land on PATH
First run after this still compiles cold (it saves); the payoff shows from the second run on. Verify with the throwaway-tag loop and compare Build Linux binary times.
Local flow is now ./release 1.6.7 (or make release VERSION=1.6.7):
bump wails.json productVersion, commit the bump, generate git-cliff
notes into an annotated plain-version tag, and push commit plus tag.
The tag push fires the new Gitea Actions workflow.
- cliff.toml: git-cliff groups matching Bookhoard, tag_pattern for
plain versions so --latest scopes correctly.
- Makefile release target: strict plain-semver validation, dirty-tree
and existing-tag guards, python3 wails.json bump committed as
chore(release), throwaway-tag notes generation, push of main + tag.
- release: wrapper normalizing v/AniTrack- prefixes to plain versions.
- .gitea/workflows/release.yml: version guard (wails.json vs tag,
base-match for -suffix pre-releases), Go 1.25 / Node 20 / Wails
v2.15.0 + webkit2_41 system deps, environment.go from Actions
secrets, make build, AniTrack-<version>.tar.gz packaged from
build/ (bin, icon, desktop, install script, README), idempotent
Release create/update named AniTrack-<version> with archive
attached via REGISTRY_TOKEN PAT.
John O'Keefe