microsoft / microsoft/beachball

Beachball tries bumping package to version that already exist despite no changes

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Description

Our publishing pipeline occasionally fails when beachball tries bumping a package to a version that already exists despite no changes in that package. We're not sure why this happens but it seems occur with newer packages that were recently added to the repo. In order to fix the pipeline, we've been making small changes in the package that beachball tried bumping in order to trigger a version bump in that package. This unblocks us for a bit but the issue continues to pop up.

We saw this issue and are wondering if it could be related to this problem?

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Research direction

Start by comparing this behavior with the linked issue #281 and trace the publishing pipeline's version-bumping logic for recently added packages. The issue is resolved when unchanged packages no longer receive an already-existing version and the pipeline completes without requiring artificial package changes.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
ci-cd, release
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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