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What: Prepares the Promote workflow to use npm trusted publishing through GitHub Actions OIDC as part of FELT-143.

Depends on #12694; merge that PR first, as this change relies on its Lerna upgrade and provenance metadata fix.

Implementation

• Grant the Promote deploy job contents: read and id-token: write.
• Install npm@11.21.1 before running the promotion script, matching the prerelease workflow and retaining Node 22.
• Remove NPM_TOKEN from the workflow and token-based .npmrc creation from the script.
• Add set -e so command failures stop the script and fail the job.

Existing promotion process

Repository history shows that maintainers switch between stable publication and next-prerelease preparation by commenting/uncommenting the relevant Lerna commands.

This PR preserves that process:

• The stable publication command targeting npm’s latest tag remains commented out.
• The command preparing the next prerelease cycle remains active.
• The optional patternfly-version dependency-update code remains commented out.

This PR prepares authentication; it does not enable stable publication.

npm configuration and timing

Before publishing through Promote, configure an additional trusted publisher on each of the 11 public packages: the ten @patternfly/react-* packages and eslint-plugin-patternfly-react.

Use:

• GitHub organization: patternfly
• Repository: patternfly-react
• Workflow filename: promote.yml
• Environment: blank
• Allow npm publish: enabled

npm requires the first successful publication through each new trusted-publisher entry within two days. This window applies separately to the promote.yml entry, even when the same package has already published prereleases through its release.yml entry.

Running the version-only preparation command does not validate a trusted publisher because it does not publish to npm.

Configure the promote.yml entries close to the first stable publication, rather than during PR review. They are not required merely to merge this authentication preparation.

Testing

• Workflow YAML and configuration assertions passed, including OIDC permissions, npm setup ordering, and retained GitHub authentication.
• Bash syntax, Prettier, and diff checks passed.
• Mocked next-prerelease preparation success/failure paths passed.
• With stable publication enabled only in the test harness, mocked success passed and publication failure stopped subsequent versioning.
• Verified the script neither creates nor overwrites .npmrc.

No real publication, version changes, commits, tags, or pushes were performed during testing. Actual Promote OIDC publication remains to be verified at release time.

Additional issues: Prerelease trusted publishing is covered by #12694.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Release and promotion publishing now use staged workflows, with package archives published to npm with provenance.
  • Release notifications are sent to the related pull request when available.
  • Promotion preparation and next-prerelease versioning are handled separately; unsupported promotion commands now return an error.
  • Updated release tooling and workspace configuration, including generated-file exclusions and package repository metadata.

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Walkthrough

The release and promotion automation now prepares package archives separately from publishing them. The workflows publish archives with provenance and use explicit permissions. Release preparation can also generate PR notification data. Tests cover the preparation scripts and workflow conditions.

Changes

Release and promotion automation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workspace and package setup package.json, .gitignore, .prettierignore, packages/react-styles/package.json	The root Lerna version changes to ^9.0.7. Ignore rules exclude Nx workspace data. react-styles gains Git repository metadata.
Release preparation, publishing, and notification .github/prepare-release.mjs, .github/release.sh, .github/workflows/release.yml, .github/release.test.mjs	The release script delegates to a preparation script that versions packages, creates archives, and writes package and PR outputs. The workflow uploads and publishes archives, then posts a PR notification when a PR number is available. Tests cover preparation, packaging, publishing, notification, and workflow conditions.
Promotion preparation, publishing, and versioning .github/prepare-promote.mjs, .github/promote.sh, .github/workflows/promote.yml, .github/promote.test.mjs	The preparation script versions eligible packages and creates archives. The workflow publishes available archives and runs next-prerelease when preparation succeeds and publishing succeeds or is skipped. Tests cover script commands, publishing, and workflow conditions.
Pull request test execution .github/workflows/main.yml	A pull-request-only job runs the release and promotion tests after project setup without a build.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReleaseWorkflow
  participant PrepareRelease
  participant Lerna
  participant NpmRegistry
  participant GitHubPR
  ReleaseWorkflow->>PrepareRelease: Prepare archives and outputs
  PrepareRelease->>Lerna: List packages and version prereleases
  PrepareRelease-->>ReleaseWorkflow: Archives and notification data
  ReleaseWorkflow->>NpmRegistry: Publish archives
  ReleaseWorkflow->>GitHubPR: Post notification when PR number is set

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Possibly related PRs

• patternfly/patternfly-react#12694: Implements trusted publishing for prereleases. This PR includes related release preparation and publishing changes and extends trusted publishing to promotion.

Suggested reviewers: tlabaj, nicolethoen, dlabaj

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to deca7

The change separates package preparation from publishing and removes the token-based npm authentication. No concrete merge-blocking risk was identified. Real trusted publishing can only be verified at release time, as the PR states.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Title check		The title clearly describes preparation of the Promote workflow for npm trusted publishing.
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- Line 27: Move the id-token: write permission out of the job that runs
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