Simplify Registry release pipeline (#1204)

* Improve registry release reliablilty

* Remove trigger from docker build pipeline

* Remove whitespace and publish from version release

* Add whitespave for neater pr

Author: MattBabbage

.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml

@@ -127,19 +127,4 @@ jobs:
         # This step uses the identity token to provision an ephemeral certificate
         # against the sigstore community Fulcio instance.
         run: echo "${TAGS}" | xargs -I {} cosign sign --yes {}@${DIGEST}
-
-      - name: Trigger registry publication
-        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' && github.ref_type == 'tag' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
-        uses: actions/github-script@v7
-        with:
-          script: |
-            await github.rest.repos.createDispatchEvent({
-              owner: context.repo.owner,
-              repo: context.repo.repo,
-              event_type: 'docker-published',
-              client_payload: {
-                tag: context.ref.replace('refs/tags/', ''),
-                sha: context.sha,
-                image_digest: '${{ steps.build-and-push.outputs.digest }}'
-              }
-            });
+        

.github/workflows/registry-releaser.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 name: Publish to MCP Registry
 
 on:
-  repository_dispatch:
-    types: [docker-published]  # Triggered after Docker image is published
+  push:
+    tags: ["v*"]  # Triggers on version tags like v1.0.0
   workflow_dispatch:  # Allow manual triggering
 
 jobs:
@@ -23,32 +23,28 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Fetch tags
         run: |
-          if [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "repository_dispatch" ]]; then
-            echo "Triggered by docker-published event for tag: ${{ github.event.client_payload.tag }}"
-          elif [[ "${{ github.ref_type }}" != "tag" ]]; then
+          if [[ "${{ github.ref_type }}" != "tag" ]]; then
             git fetch --tags
           else
             echo "Skipping tag fetch - already on tag ${{ github.ref_name }}"
           fi
 
       - name: Wait for Docker image
         run: |
-          if [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "repository_dispatch" ]]; then
-            TAG="${{ github.event.client_payload.tag }}"
-          elif [[ "${{ github.ref_type }}" == "tag" ]]; then
+          if [[ "${{ github.ref_type }}" == "tag" ]]; then
             TAG="${{ github.ref_name }}"
           else
             TAG=$(git tag --sort=-version:refname | grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -n1)
           fi
           IMAGE="ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:$TAG"
           
-          for i in {1..6}; do
+          for i in {1..10}; do
             if docker manifest inspect "$IMAGE" &>/dev/null; then
               echo "✅ Docker image ready: $TAG"
               break
             fi
-            [ $i -eq 6 ] && { echo "❌ Timeout waiting for $TAG after 3 minutes"; exit 1; }
-            echo "⏳ Waiting for Docker image ($i/6)..."
+            [ $i -eq 10 ] && { echo "❌ Timeout waiting for $TAG after 5 minutes"; exit 1; }
+            echo "⏳ Waiting for Docker image ($i/10)..."
             sleep 30
           done
 
@@ -60,10 +56,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Update server.json version
         run: |
-          if [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "repository_dispatch" ]]; then
-            TAG_VERSION=$(echo "${{ github.event.client_payload.tag }}" | sed 's/^v//')
-            echo "Using tag from dispatch: ${{ github.event.client_payload.tag }}"
-          elif [[ "${{ github.ref_type }}" == "tag" ]]; then
+          if [[ "${{ github.ref_type }}" == "tag" ]]; then
             TAG_VERSION=$(echo "${{ github.ref_name }}" | sed 's/^v//')
           else
             LATEST_TAG=$(git tag --sort=-version:refname | grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-.*)?$' | head -n 1)