Fix: error handling (#449)

- refactored the big `if/else` to exit early
- added error handling for different errors while creating a release

src/github.ts

@@ -281,7 +281,13 @@ export const release = async (
     });
     return release.data;
   } catch (error) {
-    if (error.status === 404) {
+    if (error.status !== 404) {
+      console.log(
+        `⚠️ Unexpected error fetching GitHub release for tag ${config.github_ref}: ${error}`
+      );
+      throw error;
+    }
+
     const tag_name = tag;
     const name = config.input_name || tag;
     const body = releaseBody(config);
@@ -312,22 +318,28 @@ export const release = async (
       });
       return release.data;
     } catch (error) {
-        // presume a race with competing metrix runs
+      // presume a race with competing matrix runs
-        console.log(error.response.data);
+      console.log(`⚠️ GitHub release failed with status: ${error.status}`);
+      console.log(`${JSON.stringify(error.response.data)}`);
+
+      switch (error.status) {
+        case 403:
           console.log(
-          `⚠️ GitHub release failed with status: ${
+            "Skip retry — your GitHub token/PAT does not have the required permission to create a release"
-            error.status
-          }\n${JSON.stringify(error.response.data.errors)}\nretrying... (${
-            maxRetries - 1
-          } retries remaining)`
-        );
-        return release(config, releaser, maxRetries - 1);
-      }
-    } else {
-      console.log(
-        `⚠️ Unexpected error fetching GitHub release for tag ${config.github_ref}: ${error}`
           );
           throw error;
+
+        case 404:
+          console.log("Skip retry - discussion category mismatch");
+          throw error;
+
+        case 422:
+          console.log("Skip retry - validation failed");
+          throw error;
+      }
+
+      console.log(`retrying... (${maxRetries - 1} retries remaining)`);
+      return release(config, releaser, maxRetries - 1);
     }
   }
 };