Stacks-wallet-web: Automate publishing to the extension stores

Created on 10 Mar 2021 · 6Comments · Source: blockstack/stacks-wallet-web

We need to determine:

How we publish new releases to the FF and Chrome stores
What kind of automation we can utilize
- Likely can automate a lot for Chrome, but FF still needs to be manual
Who owns this stuff? Who manually publishes new versions and handles reviewer conversations on the FF store?

chore

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hstove

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@hstove Having trouble understanding what step in the GH workflow does the actual upload to the Chrome/FF store. Do the Chrome and FF stores reference our GCS bucket when users download the addon through their site?

Also, it doesn't seem like Chrome is requiring us to sign the plugin before uploading to GCS like Firefox does. If there is a signing step available for that process, I'd like to look into that as well.

CharlieC3 on 7 Apr 2021

The GCS bucket is not relevant to actually publishing on the stores - that's just our temporary workaround. Publishing to the stores will be a similar, but different process.

For Chrome, we can almost fully automate the publishing process from CI.

For Firefox, we already have the web-ext integration setup, and it's publishing to our "unlisted" channel. Publishing to the "production" version of the store requires simply changing a flag to --channel listed, but that still requires a human to log in and: