chore: read release cycle year and month from file

The year and month for the release cycle are now provided from file rather than being read from the
OS.

For an explanation, see the comment in the diff.

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -190,10 +190,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: set package version
         shell: bash
         run: |
-          current_date=$(date +%Y.%m)
+          release_year=$(grep 'release-year:' release-cycle-info | awk '{print $2}')
+          release_month=$(grep 'release-month:' release-cycle-info | awk '{print $2}')
           release_cycle=$(grep 'release-cycle:' release-cycle-info | awk '{print $2}')
           release_cycle_counter=$(grep 'release-cycle-counter:' release-cycle-info | awk '{print $2}')
-          version="$current_date.$release_cycle.$release_cycle_counter"
+          version="$release_year.$release_month.$release_cycle.$release_cycle_counter"
           echo "PACKAGE_VERSION=$version" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: package release artifacts

Justfile

@@ -374,10 +374,11 @@ package-arch arch:
   if [[ -n $PACKAGE_VERSION ]]; then
     version="$PACKAGE_VERSION"
   else
-    current_date=$(date +%Y.%m)
+    release_year=$(grep 'release-year:' release-cycle-info | awk '{print $2}')
+    release_month=$(grep 'release-month:' release-cycle-info | awk '{print $2}')
     release_cycle=$(grep 'release-cycle:' release-cycle-info | awk '{print $2}')
     release_cycle_counter=$(grep 'release-cycle-counter:' release-cycle-info | awk '{print $2}')
-    version="$current_date.$release_cycle.$release_cycle_counter"
+    version="$release_year.$release_month.$release_cycle.$release_cycle_counter"
   fi
   architecture="{{arch}}"
   zip_filename="${version}.autonomi.${architecture}.zip"

release-cycle-info

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# The reason for having the year and month here rather than reading it from the OS is because we
+# have two cycles per month, but the RC can be built for the first cycle of the following month, in
+# the current month. So for example, you could build the first September RC before the month of
+# August ends, hence reading the current date from the OS would give you 08 rather than 09. The same
+# thing applies to the year. So, it's simple enough to just define them here.
+#
 # The release-cycle is the cycle within the current month. It will be 1 or 2. It is set at the
 # beginning of the cycle.
 #
@@ -6,5 +12,7 @@
 #
 # Both of these numbers are used in the packaged version number, which is a collective version
 # number for all the released binaries.
+release-year: 2024
+release-month: 09
 release-cycle: 1
 release-cycle-counter: 1