📖：say how the API reference reaches the portal

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Before: "Publishing the API reference" in RELEASING.md described three manual steps — download sdk-api-docs from the Release run, unzip it into the portal's vendor/sdk-api/, open a pull request there.

After: it describes starting the portal's SDK API sync workflow with the ID of that run, which does those three things, and says that the portal's SDK API drift workflow reads this repository's releases weekly and files an issue there when a release is missing its reference.

Documentation only — nothing about how the artifact is built or attached changes.

How: the counterpart is OpenINF/openinf.github.io#1906, which adds both workflows. Worth knowing from this side is the direction: the portal fetches rather than this repository pushing, so nothing here has to hold a credential that can write there — which matters because the job that would have carried it is the one with publishing rights to the registry. The run to sync from has to be one that carries the artifact, not merely one that published: publishing happens before the documentation is built and attached, so a Release run can reach the registry and still fail afterwards.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated API reference publishing guidance to use the portal’s SDK API synchronization workflow.
  • API documentation is transferred automatically and used to prepare a pull request without requiring repository write credentials.
  • Existing releases are protected from being overwritten during synchronization.
  • Package publishing continues even when API reference attachment fails.
  • A weekly check reports releases that are missing API references.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release documentation now describes a portal SDK API sync workflow. The workflow transfers the generated API artifact, prevents release overwrites, opens a pull request, and reports missing references separately from package publishing.

Changes

SDK API reference handoff

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Portal SDK API sync workflow RELEASING.md	The release process starts the portal workflow with the publishing Release run ID. The workflow transfers the artifact, prevents overwrites, and opens the portal pull request. Missing handoffs do not fail package publishing.

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Inline comments:
In `@RELEASING.md`:
- Around line 130-131: Update the sentence in the releasing documentation to
clarify that skipping the handoff leaves the portal without the API reference,
while preserving the existing statement that packages are still published.
- Around line 115-118: Update the release instructions around the portal’s SDK
API sync workflow to require selecting a successful Release run that contains
the sdk-api-docs artifact. Clarify that package publication alone is
insufficient because documentation generation or artifact upload may fail
afterward, preventing the portal workflow’s download step from succeeding.

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