Relying on Cachix is breaking publishing process (#1076)

Increase timeout by 1 minute, and enable release tagging to occur and
not rely on cachix responding with pin push response.

Author: F-WRunTime

.github/scripts/check-cachix-pin.sh

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ SUMMARY="${GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY:-/dev/stdout}"
 } >> "$SUMMARY"
 
 # Verify push + pin together for each package. Both can become visible with delay.
-PIN_VISIBILITY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=120 # 2 minutes
+PIN_VISIBILITY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=180 # 3 minutes
 PIN_VISIBILITY_INTERVAL_SECONDS=5 # 5 seconds
 PIN_VISIBILITY_ATTEMPTS=$((PIN_VISIBILITY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS / PIN_VISIBILITY_INTERVAL_SECONDS))
 for i in $(seq 1 "$PIN_VISIBILITY_ATTEMPTS"); do

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ jobs:
 
   tag-release:
     runs-on: [ self-hosted, linux ]
-    needs: [ release-docker, nix-cache, nix-binary-cache ]
+    needs: [ release-docker ]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with: