Context

The Publish-PSModule action currently handles both creating a GitHub Release and publishing to the PowerShell Gallery as part of a single workflow step or tightly coupled process. This makes it harder to debug failures, retry individual publishing steps, or add new registries in the future.

Request

The GitHub Release creation and the PowerShell Gallery publishing should be separated into distinct, independent steps in the workflow.

Acceptance criteria

• GitHub Release creation is a separate step from PSGallery publishing
• Each step can succeed or fail independently
• Failures in one step do not block the other (unless explicitly configured)
• The workflow summary clearly shows the status of each step

Technical decisions

To be determined during implementation planning.

Implementation plan

• Identify the current coupling between GitHub Release creation and PSGallery publishing in Publish-PSModule
• Separate into two distinct jobs or steps
• Ensure each step reports its own status independently
• Update the workflow to handle partial failures (e.g., PSGallery publish fails but GitHub Release succeeds)
• Test both steps independently