Checking a Draft GitHub Release Before Anyone Can Download It

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Many projects don’t publish releases straight from CI. A tool such as GoReleaser builds everything and uploads it to a draft release on GitHub. A maintainer looks the draft over, edits the notes, and presses publish. Until then, nobody else can see it.

That review step is a good idea with one weakness: a person looking at a list of six file names can’t tell what’s inside them. The draft is the last moment a mistake is free to fix, and it’s exactly where an automatic check belongs.

Goreleaser on rmqa.com

Checking a Draft GitHub Release Before Anyone Can Download It