Add skip-publish option for applications like Reframe

- Add skip-publish input to reusable workflow
- Configure Reframe to skip crates.io publishing
- Update application template with skip-publish: true
- Reframe now only runs tests, creates git tags, and GitHub releases
- No attempt to publish to crates.io for applications

This properly handles applications that are distributed as binaries
rather than crates, avoiding unnecessary crates.io operations.

Author: shankar-gpio

.github/workflows/release-reframe.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     with:
       repository: GoPlasmatic/Reframe
       package-type: application
+      skip-publish: true  # Reframe is not published to crates.io
       dry-run: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
     secrets:
       GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}

.github/workflows/rust-release-reusable.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ on:
         required: false
         type: string
         default: 'library'
+      skip-publish:
+        description: 'Skip publishing to crates.io (for applications or testing)'
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
       dry-run:
         description: 'Dry run (skip publishing)'
         required: false
@@ -109,7 +114,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "Main package: $PACKAGE_NAME v$PACKAGE_VERSION (workspace: $PACKAGE_COUNT packages)"
       
       - name: Check if version exists on crates.io
-        if: inputs.package-type == 'library'
+        if: inputs.package-type == 'library' && inputs.skip-publish != true
         id: check_crates
         run: |
           CRATE_VERSION=$(curl -s https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/${{ steps.package_info.outputs.name }} | jq -r '.crate.max_version // "none"')
@@ -206,7 +211,7 @@ jobs:
           files: ${{ inputs.package-type == 'application' && format('{0}-v{1}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz', steps.package_info.outputs.name, steps.package_info.outputs.version) || '' }}
 
       - name: Publish to crates.io (library)
-        if: inputs.package-type == 'library' && inputs.dry-run != true && steps.check_crates.outputs.exists != 'true'
+        if: inputs.package-type == 'library' && inputs.skip-publish != true && inputs.dry-run != true && steps.check_crates.outputs.exists != 'true'
         env:
           CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CRATES_IO_TOKEN }}
         run: |
@@ -274,6 +279,8 @@ jobs:
             echo "✅ Released ${{ steps.package_info.outputs.name }} v${{ steps.package_info.outputs.version }}"
             if [ "${{ inputs.package-type }}" = "application" ]; then
               echo "📦 Binary package: ${{ steps.package_info.outputs.name }}-v${{ steps.package_info.outputs.version }}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
+            elif [ "${{ inputs.skip-publish }}" = "true" ]; then
+              echo "📦 Git tag and GitHub release created (no crates.io publish)"
             else
               echo "📦 Published to crates.io"
             fi

README.md

@@ -48,10 +48,11 @@ jobs:
     with:
       repository: GoPlasmatic/your-repo
       package-type: library  # or application
+      skip-publish: false  # Set to true for apps not published to crates.io
       dry-run: false
     secrets:
       GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
-      CRATES_IO_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CRATES_IO_TOKEN }}
+      CRATES_IO_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CRATES_IO_TOKEN }}  # Not needed if skip-publish: true
 ```
 
 ## Features
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ Configure as organization-level secrets:
 - **datafake-rs** - Fake data generation
 
 ### Applications
-- **Reframe** - Binary application
+- **Reframe** - Binary application (GitHub releases only, not published to crates.io)
 
 ## Workspace Support
 

templates/application-release-caller.yml

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ jobs:
     with:
       repository: ${{ github.repository }}
       package-type: application
+      skip-publish: true  # Applications typically don't publish to crates.io
       dry-run: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
     secrets:
       GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}