From 19486b79fe4e60075e2d826fd360ab1db95d468f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmed Awan <qe66653@umbc.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:12:31 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] only allow one draft at a time, and update it if it is the
 target version

A limitation of the release-drafter (as I understand it) is that it
only updates the latest draft, whether it is the dev draft at that
point or the release draft, hence, resulting in duplicate release
drafts if a PR against a release branch is merged.

Here, we've added a step that checks and expects only 1 draft release
at a time. This is cleaner because: while the only draft is `dev`,
we only update that draft. Once, during the release process, `dev`
becomes a `release_` branch, we do not create yet another draft
for dev and instead just update the latest release branch draft,
until the release will be published and then dev will start getting
its own draft notes.
---
 .github/workflows/release-drafter.yml | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml b/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
index d47a59e4f0a..b552e2d2a72 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,36 @@ jobs:
           echo "version=${RELEASE_VERSION}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "Galaxy release version: ${RELEASE_VERSION}"
 
+      - name: Check if we should update draft
+        id: check-draft
+        run: |
+          VERSION="${{ inputs.version || steps.galaxy-version.outputs.version }}"
+
+          # Check if this version is already published
+          PUBLISHED=$(gh release view "v${VERSION}" --json isDraft --jq '.isDraft' 2>/dev/null || echo "not_found")
+
+          if [ "$PUBLISHED" = "false" ]; then
+            echo "Published release v${VERSION} already exists. Skipping."
+            echo "skip=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          # Check if a draft exists for a DIFFERENT version (only one draft at a time)
+          EXISTING_DRAFT=$(gh release list --limit 50 --json tagName,isDraft --jq '.[] | select(.isDraft == true) | .tagName' | head -1)
+
+          if [ -n "$EXISTING_DRAFT" ] && [ "$EXISTING_DRAFT" != "v${VERSION}" ]; then
+            echo "Draft release $EXISTING_DRAFT already exists (for different version). Skipping v${VERSION}."
+            echo "Only one draft release at a time is supported."
+            echo "skip=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          else
+            echo "Proceeding with draft for v${VERSION}."
+            echo "skip=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          fi
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
       - uses: release-drafter/release-drafter@v6
+        if: steps.check-draft.outputs.skip == 'false'
         with:
           config-name: release-drafter.yml
           version: ${{ steps.galaxy-version.outputs.version }}