User description

Ruby & Rust version bumps update their lockfiles requiring re-pinning, which makes things inconsistent, this is here to help

What does this PR do?

• Ruby & Rust version tasks no longer include calling update task
• Neither versions nor changelogs need to be managed in separate jobs during pre-release
• Edit: turns out changelogs does need to be in a separate job so it can use calculate-depth job, it will still run in parallel just not in the matrix
• Explicitly calling version and update in same step for pre-release workflow
• Adding explicit Rust handling since Rust is no longer part of all: tasks

Implementation Notes

Pre-release workflow runs the updates separately in parallel for visibility. The same functionality in one task:
./go release_updates

The pre-release workflow matrix for release-updates now includes:

• bindings-versions: ./go all:version && ./go all:update (bindings)
• rust-versions: ./go rust:version && ./go rust:update (Rust separately)
• changelogs: ./go all:changelogs && ./go rust:changelogs

This ensures:

1. Ruby's lockfile coupling is handled (version runs before update in same job)
2. Rust is handled separately since it's excluded from all: tasks
3. Reduced workflow complexity without creating top-level jobs

• The separate Rust release flow (generate-rust-version -> push-rust-version -> selenium-manager) remains unchanged for Selenium Manager releases

Additional Considerations

Plan to merge this before #16987

Types of changes

• Cleanup (formatting, renaming)

PR Type

Enhancement

Description

• Consolidate pre-release workflow by merging separate jobs into single matrix job

• Remove automatic update invocations from Ruby and Rust version bump tasks

• Add explicit Rust handling in release workflow since excluded from all: tasks

• Rename and restructure release preparation task for clarity and consistency

Diagram Walkthrough

flowchart LR
  A["Pre-release Workflow"] -->|"Consolidate"| B["Single release-updates Job"]
  B -->|"Matrix includes"| C["Browsers, DevTools, Manager"]
  B -->|"Matrix includes"| D["Multitool, Binding-versions, Rust-versions"]
  B -->|"Matrix includes"| E["Authors, Changelogs"]
  F["Ruby/Rust version tasks"] -->|"Remove auto-update"| G["Manual update invocation"]
  H["prep_release task"] -->|"Rename to"| I["release_updates task"]