ci: remove release drafter
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Current evaluation
Merged removal of the unused and failing release drafter CI workflow, which broke after a Renovate v6 to v7 update. Approved by a reviewer, the change eliminates 40 lines of configuration across two files to resolve persistent pipeline failures.
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This workflow is always failing ever since an update from v6 to v7 from Renovate, and we don't even use it. See https://github.com/canonical/snapcraft/pull/6253.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged removal of the unused and failing release drafter CI workflow, which broke after a Renovate v6 to v7 update. Approved by a reviewer, the change eliminates 40 lines of configuration across two files to resolve persistent pipeline failures. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
5
Complexity:
5
Confidence:
90
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needs review | Removes a failing CI release drafter workflow that broke after a Renovate update and is no longer used. Currently awaiting initial review and CI checks. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2331 ci: remove release drafter workflow | charmcraft | merged | Merged the removal of the release drafter CI workflow, which was no longer used and consistently failing. Approved by two reviewers, the change deletes 16 lines across one file. | |
| #5314 ci: remove duplicate release-drafter workflow | snapcraft | merged | Merged removal of a duplicate release-drafter workflow from CI. Approved by two reviewers, the change deletes 16 lines across one file to streamline automation. | |
| #6262 ci: drop release drafter | snapcraft | merged | Merged to remove release drafter workflows per discussion #6253. Approved by two reviewers, the change deletes two CI configuration files and removes 22 lines of code after passing integration and security checks. | |
| #159 ci: remove release-drafter workflow | craft-archives | merged | Merged removal of the release-drafter workflow to align with starbase. Approved by two reviewers with passing CI checks, the change deleted 46 lines across two files. | |
| #369 ci: drop release-drafter workflow | starbase | merged | Merged PR removing the unused release-drafter CI workflow. The automation was redundant as release notes are already generated by the release-publish workflow and maintained in per-repository changelogs. Approved by two reviewers and passed CI checks. | |
| #1239 ci: remove release-drafter workflow | rockcraft | merged | Merged. The release-drafter workflow was removed as the publish workflow already overwrites its output, rendering it redundant. Approved and integrated after CI validation. | |
| #375 ci: drop release drafter | craft-store | merged | Merged. Removed the Release Drafter GitHub Actions workflow and configuration files to eliminate inactive automated release note drafting. Approved by two reviewers and passed CI checks. | |
| #76 ci: cleaning duplicate release drafter conf | craft-grammar | merged | Merged after removing a duplicate release drafter configuration. Approved by two reviewers, passed CI, and deleted 15 lines from one file. Commit prefix adjusted to ci: per reviewer feedback. | |
| #6253 ci: fix release-drafter workflow | snapcraft | closed | Maintainers closed the request without merging. Instead of applying the version 7 fix, the team decided to remove the release-drafter workflow entirely, planning to delete the configuration files during the next Starbase merge. | |
| #232 ci: update renovate config and workflow | starbase | merged | Merged updates to the Renovate configuration and CI workflow. Approved by two reviewers, the change modified two files (+45/-10 lines) to streamline automated dependency management. |