fix: skip VM acceptance gate for pre-release tags#13
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Pre-release tags (-beta.N, -rc.N) no longer require the VM acceptance test. The validate pipeline (lint, formula audit, macOS integration test) still runs and must pass. A skipped job counts as success for the release job's `needs`. Stable tags (1.0.0+) continue to require the full VM acceptance test. The VM test requires Apple Silicon bare-metal runners with nested virtualization enabled — not available on standard GitHub-hosted macOS runners. It remains the release gate for stable versions where it can be triggered manually or via self-hosted runners. Updated VERSIONING.md to document the two-tier gate model. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Standard GitHub-hosted
macos-15runners don't support nested virtualization (they run inside VMs themselves on the free tier), so Tart can't boot a macOS guest VM. This blocks all beta releases.The fix: two-tier release gates.
v0.1.0-beta.1,v1.0.0-rc.1v1.0.0,v1.2.3Pre-releases are explicitly not fully vetted — skipping the VM gate is semantically correct. The validate pipeline still runs and must pass. Stable releases retain the full VM gate as the quality bar for "mainstream ready."
In GitHub Actions, a skipped job counts as success for
needs, soreleasestill runs whenacceptanceis skipped.After merging
Re-tag to finally publish
v0.1.0-beta.1:🤖 Generated with Claude Code