remove asserts that were obviated by dotenv

script/ci-release-build.js

@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ async function makeRequest (requestOptions, parseResponse) {
 }
 
 async function circleCIcall (buildUrl, targetBranch, job, options) {
-  assert(process.env.CIRCLE_TOKEN, 'CIRCLE_TOKEN not found in environment')
   console.log(`Triggering CircleCI to run build job: ${job} on branch: ${targetBranch} with release flag.`)
   let buildRequest = {
     'build_parameters': {
@@ -79,7 +78,6 @@ async function circleCIcall (buildUrl, targetBranch, job, options) {
 }
 
 function buildAppVeyor (targetBranch, options) {
-  assert(process.env.APPVEYOR_TOKEN, 'APPVEYOR_TOKEN not found in environment')
   const validJobs = Object.keys(appVeyorJobs)
   if (options.job) {
     assert(validJobs.includes(options.job), `Unknown AppVeyor CI job name: ${options.job}.  Valid values are: ${validJobs}.`)
@@ -141,7 +139,6 @@ async function buildVSTS (targetBranch, options) {
     assert(vstsJobs.includes(options.job), `Unknown VSTS CI job name: ${options.job}. Valid values are: ${vstsJobs}.`)
   }
   console.log(`Triggering VSTS to run build on branch: ${targetBranch} with release flag.`)
-  assert(process.env.VSTS_TOKEN, 'VSTS_TOKEN not found in environment')
   let environmentVariables = {}
 
   if (!options.ghRelease) {

script/prepare-release.js

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ require('colors')
 const args = require('minimist')(process.argv.slice(2), {
   boolean: ['automaticRelease', 'notesOnly', 'stable']
 })
-const assert = require('assert')
 const ciReleaseBuild = require('./ci-release-build')
 const { execSync } = require('child_process')
 const fail = '\u2717'.red
@@ -20,7 +19,6 @@ const versionType = args._[0]
 // TODO (future) automatically determine version based on conventional commits
 // via conventional-recommended-bump
 
-assert(process.env.ELECTRON_GITHUB_TOKEN, 'ELECTRON_GITHUB_TOKEN not found in environment')
 if (!versionType && !args.notesOnly) {
   console.log(`Usage: prepare-release versionType [major | minor | patch | beta]` +
      ` (--stable) (--notesOnly) (--automaticRelease) (--branch)`)

script/release.js

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 require('dotenv-safe').load()
 require('colors')
 const args = require('minimist')(process.argv.slice(2))
-const assert = require('assert')
 const fs = require('fs')
 const { execSync } = require('child_process')
 const GitHub = require('github')
@@ -19,8 +18,6 @@ const temp = require('temp').track()
 const { URL } = require('url')
 let failureCount = 0
 
-assert(process.env.ELECTRON_GITHUB_TOKEN, 'ELECTRON_GITHUB_TOKEN not found in environment')
-
 const github = new GitHub({
   followRedirects: false
 })