Harden create-release Velopack uploads against transient GitHub transport failures

[Copilot]

The create-release GitHub Actions job was failing in run 26686864386 (job 78656787270) during vpk upload github with intermittent transport errors (Broken pipe). This change makes release asset publishing resilient to transient upload failures instead of failing the workflow on a single unstable transfer window.

• Root cause addressed

  • create-release relied on a single vpk upload github invocation per channel, and Velopack’s internal retries were not always sufficient for large asset uploads over unstable connections.

• Workflow change

  • Added an outer retry loop around vpk upload github in .github/workflows/release.yml.
  • Retries up to 3 attempts with incremental backoff before surfacing a hard failure.
  • Keeps failure behavior explicit when retries are exhausted.

• Scope

  • Limited to the create-release job upload block; no build/package logic changes.

max_attempts=3
attempt=1
until vpk upload github ...; do
  if [ "$attempt" -ge "$max_attempts" ]; then
    echo "Velopack upload failed after ${max_attempts} attempts."
    exit 1
  fi
  sleep_seconds=$((attempt * 15))
  sleep "$sleep_seconds"
  attempt=$((attempt + 1))
done

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