Cut Release

Cut a release of iseo-argo-ble

Repo: FezVrasta/iseo-argo-ble, cloned at ~/Developer/hass/iseo_ble (the directory is not named after the repo). Ships to two channels: HACS reads manifest.json, PyPI reads pyproject.toml.

Gotchas & non-obvious constraints

• Two version files, and they silently drift. pyproject.toml (version =, near line 7) and custom_components/iseo_argo_ble/manifest.json ("version"). Only the manifest was bumped for v0.6.6 through v0.7.5, so every PyPI publish in that range failed on an already-published version while HACS users saw the new release. A green HACS release proves nothing about PyPI. Bump both, always.
• The publish is only verified by watching the workflow. gh release create triggers .github/workflows/publish-pypi.yml (on: release: published). A failure there is invisible unless you look. Never report a release as done before that run goes green.
• This clone goes stale for months. It has been found 18 commits behind origin/master while holding five-month-old uncommitted feature work. Fetch and compare before touching anything, or you will build a release on dead code and clobber real work.
• .env is untracked and NOT gitignored. Never git add -A without excluding it — git add -A -- . ':!.env'.
• No git credential helper is configured. Pushes fail with "could not read Password". Push with: git -c credential.helper='!gh auth git-credential' push origin <ref>
• validate.sh runs mypy, which currently fails on a Python 3.14 syntax error inside the installed homeassistant package — not on this repo's code. Don't chase it; run ruff check and the tests directly.

Workflow

Phase A — make sure the ground is solid

• git fetch --all --tags, then git status -sb and git rev-list --left-right --count origin/master...HEAD. If behind, fast-forward. If local commits or uncommitted changes exist, stop and ask what they are — never fold unrelated work into a release.
• Confirm what the last release actually was: gh release list --repo FezVrasta/iseo-argo-ble --limit 5. Local tags can lag the remote badly.

Phase B — the change itself

• Commit the fix and its tests separately from the version bump, so the release commit stays a pure bump. Message style: imperative subject, body explaining the mechanism, then the Co-Authored-By: / Claude-Session: trailers used elsewhere in the history.
• Prove new regression tests are not vacuous. Check the previous tag's version of the file in, run the suite, confirm the new tests fail, restore: cp <file> /tmp/keep.py git checkout v<previous> -- <file> uv run --no-sync pytest -q tests # new tests must FAIL here cp /tmp/keep.py <file>
• Green gates: uv run --no-sync pytest -q tests, uvx ruff check ., uvx ruff format --check ..

Phase C — release

• Bump both version files to the same X.Y.Z.
• Commit as Release X.Y.Z: <one-line summary>.
• Push master, then create and push the tag vX.Y.Z on that commit.
• gh release create vX.Y.Z --title "vX.Y.Z" --notes "..." — notes describe the user-visible symptom and the mechanism, and link the issue and the compare/vPREV...vX.Y.Z changelog.

Phase D — confirm it landed

• Watch the publish, in the background rather than by polling in-band: until [ "$(gh run list --repo FezVrasta/iseo-argo-ble \ --workflow publish-pypi.yml --limit 1 --json status --jq '.[0].status')" = "completed" ] do sleep 15; done gh run list --repo FezVrasta/iseo-argo-ble --workflow publish-pypi.yml --limit 1
• Confirm the artifact exists: curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://pypi.org/pypi/iseo-argo-ble/X.Y.Z/json → 200. The /pypi/iseo-argo-ble/json "latest" field caches and lags; don't trust it as the check.
• If the release fixes a reported issue, comment on it asking the reporter to update through HACS and retest, and say exactly which debug lines you need if it still fails.

When a fix is speculative

Bugs here are often diagnosed from a traceback without access to the user's hardware. Ship the diagnostic alongside the fix — a debug log that reveals the device's actual state is worth more than another guess, and say plainly in the issue comment which parts are inference.