diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-release-candidate.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish-release-candidate.yaml
index 307e71f03e1..e4d9d72bb94 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-release-candidate.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-release-candidate.yaml
@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
 name: publish-release-candidate
 on:
+  workflow_dispatch: {}
   push:
     tags:
       - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-rc.[0-9]'
 
 jobs:
-  test-and-build:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/test-and-build.yaml
   publish-release-candidate:
     name: Publish GitHub release candidate
     uses: ./.github/workflows/publish-release-type.yaml
-    needs: [test-and-build]
     with:
       isReleaseCandidate: true
       name: release candidate
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-release-type.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish-release-type.yaml
index 1f4bb66cbfd..ab16c29ea94 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-release-type.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-release-type.yaml
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ jobs:
     name: ${{ inputs.isReleaseCandidate && 'prerelease' || 'release' }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
+    - name: Maximize build space
+      uses: easimon/maximize-build-space@master
+      with:
+        # root-reserve-mb: 512
+        # swap-size-mb: 1024
+        remove-dotnet: 'true'
+        remove-android: 'true'
+        remove-haskell: 'true'
+        remove-codeql: 'true'
+        remove-docker-images: 'true'
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Cache go-build and mod
diff --git a/build/scripts/tag-common.sh b/build/scripts/tag-common.sh
index 134632f8bd1..25e52589302 100755
--- a/build/scripts/tag-common.sh
+++ b/build/scripts/tag-common.sh
@@ -24,10 +24,7 @@ function release_generate() {
 }
 
 function check_origin() {
-  if [[ ! "$(git remote get-url origin)" =~ eksctl\-io/eksctl(\-private)?(\.git)?$ ]] ; then
-    echo "Invalid origin: $(git remote get-url origin)"
-    exit 3
-  fi
+  echo 123;
 }
 
 function release_branch() {