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What has changed and why?

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Blocked on #2456. This workflow calls render-slack-message --channel ... --output <json>, a signature that PR adds. Merging this first leaves Finish Release calling a command that does not exist yet.

  • announce_release.yml posts a released changelog section to #studio-issues-and-feedback. It reads the changelog at the tag, but runs the tooling from main — never the released tag, because the job holds the bot token.
  • finish_release.yml calls it after publish and only for target: pypi, so nothing is announced that is not on PyPI and public. Not on: release: published: GitHub creates no run from a GITHUB_TOKEN-triggered event, so that trigger would pass a manual test and be dead in production.
  • A failed post does not fail the release — by then the wheel is published and a Slack outage undoes none of it. Done with a tolerate-failure input on the callee, because continue-on-error on a uses: job is a syntax error. A manual re-post still fails loudly.
  • SLACK_ACTION_BOT_TOKEN lives in a slack environment restricted to main, unreadable from any job that does not declare it. No required reviewers — a gate there would pause a run that has already published.
  • Posts with slackapi/slack-github-action, pinned by digest since it is the only step that sees the token. Two non-obvious settings: errors: true, because Slack rejects a message with ok: false and HTTP 200 and the action ignores that by default; and payload-file-path rather than the inline payload: the docs lead with, so the rendered changelog never reaches a ${{ }} expansion or a YAML scalar. Taken over curl for its retries — a transient 5xx would otherwise lose the announcement quietly.
  • The chat.postMessage request body comes straight from the release tooling (Render the Slack announcement as a chat.postMessage payload #2456), so this file knows which channel to post in but not the request shape — unfurl_links/unfurl_media are pinned by tests there instead of sitting untested in YAML here.
  • workflow_dispatch is the re-post hatch and the only faithful rehearsal — Slack's composer treats <url|label> as literal text. Its channel input keeps a rehearsal off the production channel.

Accepted cost of the public repo: this file discloses the channel name and the message template. Neither is a secret.

Before this can run

Manual, and not in this PR:

  1. Slack app scoped to chat:write only — not chat:write.public; invite the bot instead, so a leaked token cannot post into arbitrary channels.
  2. /invite the bot to #studio-issues-and-feedback and to a test channel.
  3. Create the slack environment (selected branches → main, no required reviewers) and add SLACK_ACTION_BOT_TOKEN.

How has it been tested?

  • actionlint clean on both workflows.
  • Not yet dispatched — it needs the environment and the token first. Rehearsal plan: tag: v1.1.1 with a test channel, then tag: v1.1.0 for the ~4800-character worst case. Check the title link, and indented bullets, no unfurl card, and that tag_depth > 1 renders a literal > and not &gt; — the only rendering claim that cannot be checked offline. If it does not decode inside a code span, the fix is one function and one test in Render the Slack release announcement from the changelog #2369.

Alternative reviewer: @michal-lightly.

Did you update CHANGELOG.md?

  • Yes
  • Not needed (internal change)

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  • New Features
    • Added automated Slack announcements for published releases.
    • Release announcements can also be triggered manually with a release tag.
    • Messages include relevant release details and are posted to the default feedback channel.
    • Manual announcements can be directed to a specified channel.
    • Announcement delivery verifies successful posting and clearly reports failures.

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The pull request adds a reusable and manually dispatchable GitHub Actions workflow. It resolves tagged release data, renders a Slack announcement, and posts it through chat.postMessage. Finish Release invokes it after PyPI publishing.

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Slack Release Announcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Announcement workflow contract
.github/workflows/announce_release.yml, .github/workflows/finish_release.yml
The workflow accepts a required tag, an optional failure-tolerance flag for reusable calls, and an optional manual channel. It uses restricted permissions and the slack environment. Finish Release invokes it after PyPI publishing with inherited secrets and failure tolerance enabled.
Release data and message rendering
.github/workflows/announce_release.yml
The workflow checks out release tooling from main, resolves package configuration, retrieves the changelog and release URL for the tag, renders the Slack message, and appends it to the step summary.
Slack message publication
.github/workflows/announce_release.yml
The workflow selects the configured channel, builds the Slack payload, posts it with the bot token, checks Slack's ok response, and applies conditional failure tolerance.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Trigger as GitHub Actions trigger
  participant Workflow as Announce Release workflow
  participant GitHub as GitHub APIs
  participant PrepareRelease as prepare_release CLI
  participant Slack as Slack API

  Trigger->>Workflow: Provide release tag
  Workflow->>GitHub: Fetch tagged changelog and release URL
  Workflow->>PrepareRelease: Resolve package and render message
  PrepareRelease-->>Workflow: Return rendered Slack message
  Workflow->>Slack: Post message to configured channel
  Slack-->>Workflow: Return ok status or error
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Manual rehearsals can target a specified Slack channel, while normal releases retain the default channel.

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In @.github/workflows/announce_release.yml:
- Line 25: Update the workflow_dispatch configuration and notification path
around SLACK_CHANNEL so manual rehearsals can target a test channel instead of
always posting to studio-issues-and-feedback. Add a manual-dispatch channel
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Comment thread .github/workflows/announce_release.yml
Posts the rendered announcement with curl, not the slack_sdk step the private
release_documentation.yml uses: that resolves a PyPI package at job time inside
the job holding the bot token, in a public repo. Slack answers a rejected
message with ok: false and HTTP 200, so the status code alone would report a
silent success, and the message reaches the payload through jq --rawfile so
neither a ${{ }} expansion nor shell quoting ever sees it. No set -x and no
curl -v: both would print the bearer token.

The bot token lives in a "slack" GitHub environment, restricted to main like
"pypi" - both are reached from a run whose ref is the branch Finish Release was
dispatched from, never the release tag. The tooling is checked out from main
for the same reason: running the tagged commit's own release code would execute
it with the bot token in the environment.

The changelog is read at the tag rather than from main, which has moved on
since, and asking for the release URL also asserts that the release exists and
is readable.

Dispatchable on its own, to re-post a release or to rehearse against a test
channel: pasting the text into Slack's composer proves nothing, because the
composer treats <url|label> as literal text. The channel input is declared on
workflow_dispatch alone, since Finish Release never names one.
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Not on: release: published, which the ticket asked for - Finish Release
un-drafts the release with GITHUB_TOKEN, and GitHub creates no workflow run
from a GITHUB_TOKEN-triggered event. That trigger would fire when somebody
un-drafts by hand and stay silent on every real release, so it would pass a
manual test and be dead in production.

Calling it after publish means nothing is announced that is not on PyPI and
public, and precheck already fails a re-dispatch of a published tag, so there
is no second post to guard against separately.
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By the time the announcement posts, the wheel is on PyPI and the GitHub release
is public. A Slack outage undoes none of that, so it must not turn the run red
and send whoever released it looking for something to roll back. The post is
re-sent with the Announce Release workflow, which still fails loudly when
dispatched on its own.

The opt-out is a tolerate-failure input on the called workflow rather than
continue-on-error on the calling job: a reusable-workflow call accepts only
uses, with, secrets, needs, if, permissions, strategy, concurrency, name and
cache-mode, so continue-on-error there is a syntax error that would take the
whole file down with it. Declared on workflow_call alone, so it is empty on a
manual dispatch and the step stays strict there.
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curl sends the message once. A transient 5xx or a rate-limit loses that
announcement, and since a failed post no longer reddens the release run, it
loses it quietly. The action retries five times by default, which is the whole
reason to take the dependency.

Two things it does not do on its own. `errors` is off by default, so a message
Slack rejects with `ok: false` and HTTP 200 would pass as a success - the same
trap the hand-rolled check was there to catch, now one input away from
returning. And the payload goes through `payload-file-path` rather than the
inline `payload:` the docs lead with: the text is a rendered changelog, so
backticks, quotes, newlines and angle brackets from arbitrary entries must not
reach a `${{ }}` expansion or a YAML scalar. `payload-templated` defaults to
false, so the file is sent verbatim.

Pinned by digest rather than tag, unlike pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish: this step
is the only one that sees the bot token.
Depends on #2456, which makes render-slack-message write the whole
chat.postMessage request. The jq step that wrapped the message text goes away
with it, and so does this file's knowledge of the request shape: `unfurl_links`
and `unfurl_media` are now pinned by the tooling's tests instead of living here
untested.

The command's stdout is the rendered text, which goes to the step summary, so
nothing reads the JSON back to show what was posted.

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LGTM, but the comments are very verbose and hard to follow - could you trim them?

--notes-file "${RUNNER_TEMP}/release-notes.md"
echo "::notice::Published ${TAG}."

# After `publish`, so nothing is announced that is not on PyPI and public - which is

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I think "After publish, so nothing is announced that is not on PyPI and public" should be enough

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
name: Announce Release

# Posts a released changelog section to the Slack channel sales reads. Called by Finish

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the first sentence should be enough here as well

Comment on lines +75 to +78
# The changelog is read at the tag, not from main, which has moved on since. The
# tooling writes the whole `chat.postMessage` request, so the message never passes
# through `${{ }}` expansion or shell quoting, and the request shape is covered by
# the tooling's tests rather than by this file. Its stdout is the rendered text.

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this is also kind of long

# off by default, and Slack rejects a message with `ok: false` and HTTP 200, so
# without it a rejected post reports success. `retries` defaults to 5, which is
# the reason for using the action over a bare curl. `payload-file-path` rather
# than an inline `payload:`, so nothing expands the rendered changelog.

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same here

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