ci: add release-please workflow - #330
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Automate version bumps, changelog generation, and release PRs with release-please. Uses a GitHub App token (RELEASE_PLEASE_CLIENT_ID / RELEASE_PLEASE_APP_PRIVATE_KEY) instead of GITHUB_TOKEN so the release tag it creates triggers the existing tag-triggered goreleaser workflow. release-type is "go" so a future major bump can update the /v2 module path, and skip-github-release leaves goreleaser as the sole creator of the GitHub Release itself.
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Resolution Remove the token argument from the shell
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In @.github/release-please-config.json:
- Around line 3-4: Update the release-please configuration by setting
include-component-in-tag to false, preserving the existing release-type and
include-v-in-tag settings so root package tags use the v<version> format.
In @.github/workflows/release-please.yml:
- Line 45: Add a conditional CLI dry-run step for manual previews using
release-please’s configured token, repository, config file, and manifest file,
running only when inputs.dry-run is true; keep the pinned release-please action
disabled for dry runs and execute it only when inputs.dry-run is not true.
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- Set include-component-in-tag: false explicitly. Currently a no-op (no package-name/component is configured, so the tag is already plain v<version>), but makes the intent explicit and guards against a future package-name addition silently prefixing tags, which would break the tag-triggered goreleaser workflow. - Split the workflow_dispatch dry-run path off the real run: the pinned release-please-action now only runs for real (non-dry-run) triggers. Dry-run instead runs the release-please CLI's --dry-run directly, which only makes read-only GitHub API calls, so it uses the default GITHUB_TOKEN rather than minting the write-scoped App token. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In @.github/workflows/release-please.yml:
- Line 60: Update the dry-run job containing the GITHUB_TOKEN environment entry
to override its job-level permissions with contents, pull-requests, and issues
set to read; keep the separately generated App token’s write permissions
unchanged for the release path.
- Line 63: Update the release-please version in the dry-run command and the
pinned action configuration so both paths use the same version, preserving the
existing release and preview behavior.
- Line 52: Update the App-token creation step to run only when inputs.dry-run is
not true, while preserving the existing token setup for non-dry runs.
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- Job permissions dropped to read-only (contents/pull-requests/issues). The real release path's writes go through the separately-scoped App token via its own permission-* inputs, not the job's GITHUB_TOKEN; GITHUB_TOKEN is only used by the dry-run preview, which only reads. - Gate the App-token step to real runs only (inputs.dry-run != true): the preview never uses it, so skip minting a write-scoped token when it would go unused. - Pin the dry-run CLI to release-please@17.6.0, the exact version googleapis/release-please-action@v5.0.0 bundles, so the preview reflects what the real run would actually compute. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"go" has no effect over "simple" here: its only extra behavior is an optional version-file updater we don't configure, so it changes nothing for this repo. Matches go-ftw's config (coreruleset/go-ftw#668).
skip-github-release skips manifest.createReleases() entirely, and that's the only place a release-please tag gets created -- the git tag is a side effect of the GitHub "create release" API call, not a separate step. With it set, release-please would merge the version PR but never push the v* tag the goreleaser workflow triggers on. Removing it does not create a conflict with goreleaser: when the tag's release already exists (created by release-please), goreleaser's default createOrUpdateRelease finds it and updates it in place with the built artifacts, rather than failing.
Same fix as coreruleset/crs-toolchain#330: skip-github-release skips manifest.createReleases() entirely, and that's the only place release-please creates a tag -- it's a side effect of the GitHub "create release" API call, not a separate step. With it set, release-please would merge the version PR but never push the v* tag the goreleaser workflow triggers on. Removing it does not conflict with goreleaser: when a release already exists for the tag (created by release-please), goreleaser's default createOrUpdateRelease finds it and updates it in place with the built artifacts, rather than failing.
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release-pleaseworkflow that automates version bumps, changelog generation, and release PRs from Conventional Commits onmain.RELEASE_PLEASE_CLIENT_ID/RELEASE_PLEASE_APP_PRIVATE_KEY) instead ofGITHUB_TOKEN, so the release tag it creates triggers the existing tag-triggeredgoreleaserworkflow (GITHUB_TOKEN-authored pushes never trigger other workflows).release-type: go, so a future major bump can update the/v2module path.skip-github-release: true, sogoreleaserstays the sole creator of the actual GitHub Release (binaries, Docker images, Homebrew formula bump, Slack announcement).2.10.0, the current latest tag.Requires
RELEASE_PLEASE_CLIENT_IDandRELEASE_PLEASE_APP_PRIVATE_KEY(same GitHub App credentials already used elsewhere in the org under different secret names) need to be added before this workflow can run.Test plan
actionlint,zizmor, andratchet lintpass on the new workflow (verified locally)RELEASE_PLEASE_CLIENT_ID/RELEASE_PLEASE_APP_PRIVATE_KEYrepo secretsgoreleaserSummary by CodeRabbit
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