ci: test workaround to immutable release issue on nightly (#1907)

Workaround is to create nightly as a draft and then use `gh` to manually publish it after. Also a lot of other small fixes.

.github/workflows/nightly.yml

@@ -76,22 +76,51 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Delete tag and release if not mock
         if: github.event.inputs.isMock != 'true'
-        run: gh release delete nightly --cleanup-tag
+        run: |
+          while true; do
+            PREV_NIGHTLY=$(gh release list --json name,tagName | jq -c '[.[] | select (.tagName | contains("nightly-"))][0] | .tagName' | tr -d '"')
+
+            if [[ "$PREV_NIGHTLY" != "null" && "$PREV_NIGHTLY" == *"nightly-"* ]]; then
+              echo "Will delete nightly release with tag '$PREV_NIGHTLY'";
+              gh release delete $PREV_NIGHTLY --cleanup-tag || { echo "couldn't delete previous nightly release, halting"; break; }
+            else
+              echo "no nightly releases left, done";
+              break;
+            fi
+          done
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-      - name: Sleep for a few seconds to prevent timing issues between the deletion and creation of the release
+      - name: Create and set tag name and release name
-        run: sleep 10
         if: github.event.inputs.isMock != 'true'
+        run: |
+          COMMIT_HASH=$(git rev-parse --short=8 HEAD)
+          TIME=$(date +%s)
+          TAG_NAME=$(echo "nightly-$COMMIT_HASH-$TIME")
+          echo "TAG_NAME=$TAG_NAME" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "$TAG_NAME"
 
+          DATE=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')
+          RELEASE_NAME=$(echo "Nightly ($DATE)")
+          echo "RELEASE_NAME=$RELEASE_NAME" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "$RELEASE_NAME"
+
+      # As a workaround to immutable releases, we create it as a draft first, then manually publish it after.
       - name: Add all release files and create nightly release if not mock
         uses: softprops/action-gh-release@c062e08bd532815e2082a85e87e3ef29c3e6d191 # 2.0.8
         if: github.event.inputs.isMock != 'true'
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           prerelease: true
-          tag_name: "nightly"
+          tag_name: ${{ env.TAG_NAME }}
-          draft: false
+          draft: true
           fail_on_unmatched_files: true
+          name: ${{ env.RELEASE_NAME }}
           files: |
             ./release/*
+
+      - name: Publish the draft release
+        if: github.event.inputs.isMock != 'true'
+        run: gh release edit "$TAG_NAME" --draft=false
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

README.md

@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ yay -S bottom-git
 ### Debian / Ubuntu
 
 A `.deb` file is provided on each [stable release](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/latest) and
-[nightly builds](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/tag/nightly) for x86, aarch64, and armv7.
+[nightly builds](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases) for x86, aarch64, and armv7.
 Some examples of installing it this way:
 
 ```bash
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ mise use -g bottom@latest
 You can also use the pre-built release binaries:
 
 - [Latest stable release](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/latest), built using the release branch
-- [Latest nightly release](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/tag/nightly), built using the `main` branch at 00:00 UTC daily
+- [Latest nightly release](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases), built using the `main` branch at 00:00 UTC daily
 
 To use, download and extract the binary that matches your system. You can then run by doing:
 

docs/content/contribution/development/deploy_process.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 bottom currently has two main deploy processes to worry about:
 
-- [Nightly](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/blob/main/.github/workflows/nightly.yml): a daily (00:00 UTC) GitHub action to build binary/installer files, and upload them to the [nightly release](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases/tag/nightly). It can also be triggered manually as either a proper nightly release or a mock release.
+- [Nightly](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/blob/main/.github/workflows/nightly.yml): a daily (00:00 UTC) GitHub action to build binary/installer files, and upload them to the [nightly release](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/releases). It can also be triggered manually as either a proper nightly release or a mock release.
 - [Stable](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom/blob/main/.github/workflows/deployment.yml): a stable deployment, triggered manually or upon creation of a valid tag. This is a GitHub action that builds binary/installer files and uploads them to a new GitHub release.
 
   Furthermore, this workflow does not handle the following deployments, which must be manually handled: