Summary

• Package LICENSE, NOTICE, test helpers, and testdata in both published crates.
• Validate release tags and package inventories with locked dependencies.
• Publish paimon, wait for the exact crates.io version, then dry-run and publish paimon-datafusion.
• Skip versions that already exist so failed GA runs can be retried safely.

Why

The current matrix uses max-parallel: 1, which limits concurrency but does not guarantee paimon runs before paimon-datafusion. The packaged crates also omit legal files and reference test helpers outside their package roots.

RC validation does not dry-run both crates together: it packages both crates and dry-runs paimon. The paimon-datafusion dry-run runs only after paimon is visible on crates.io during GA publication.

Verification

• cargo package --locked -p paimon -p paimon-datafusion --all-features
• Package inventories contain LICENSE, NOTICE, dependency reports, test helpers, and testdata
• Rust formatting, YAML parsing, actionlint, and diff checks
• Static workflow assertions confirm the explicit job dependency chain and separate dry-runs