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What

Sets up release-please to cut the specification's releases, replacing the manual tagging step.

This is deliberately minimal — a single package, no component tagging — because the specification is the only thing in this repository to release today.

Why

The vX.Y.Z tags are created by hand. That is easy to postpone (v0.9.0 went out in July, and the four commits since it are unreleased) and it puts the changelog together from whoever's memory is handy at the time. release-please proposes the version and the notes as a pull request, and tags once that pull request is merged.

What does not change

before after
tag v0.9.0 v0.9.1, v0.10.0, …
next version after a breaking change minor, while < 1.0.0 unchanged
who decides a release goes out a maintainer merging a maintainer merging the release PR

include-component-in-tag: false keeps the bare vX.Y.Z shape rather than spec/vX.Y.Z, and .release-please-manifest.json starts at 0.9.0 so numbering continues from the current release rather than restarting.

release-type: simple because the root package.json is private: true and carries no version of its own. simple tracks the version in version.txt, which is why that file is added here at 0.9.0.

What does change, and needs a decision

Release notes become generated from conventional commits. v0.9.0's notes were written by hand, including the ⚠️ This release contains breaking changes callout linking #280, #306 and #360. Anything that needs saying beyond the commit subjects now has to be added to the release pull request before it is merged.

If the TSC would rather keep the old shape, changelog-sections can be tuned in a follow-up — I have left the defaults here so the first release is easy to eyeball.

What to expect on merge

release-please runs on push to main and should open a release pull request proposing v0.9.1 — the non-chore commits since v0.9.0 are #416 (security hardening), #419 and #429 (both dead CNCF Slack links) and #408 (event-driven-status clarifications), all fix: or docs:. Nothing is tagged until that pull request is merged, so the first run is reviewable before it has any effect.

The action configuration here is the one v5 actually reads: command and default-branch are not v5 inputs, target-branch is, and signoff is a configuration-file option rather than an action input — which matters because this repository enforces DCO on the bot's own commits.

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Adds release-please configuration for the root package at version 0.9.0 and configures a GitHub Actions workflow to run releases against main.

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.release-please-manifest.json, release-please-config.json, version.txt
Defines the root package version, simple release type, changelog path, tag format, pre-major minor-version bump behavior, and commit signoff identity.
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.github/workflows/release-please.yaml
Runs googleapis/release-please-action@v5 against main. The workflow grants issues, contents, and pull request write permissions. Signoff is read from release-please-config.json.

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In @.github/workflows/release-please.yaml:
- Line 26: Update the googleapis/release-please-action@v5 configuration by
removing the unsupported command/default-branch inputs and setting target-branch
to main; rely on the action’s default manifest mode by omitting release-type.
- Around line 16-18: Update the workflow permissions alongside contents and
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- Around line 10-12: Update the root configuration object in
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The specification's vX.Y.Z tags are created by hand today. That is a step
easy to postpone -- v0.9.0 went out in July and the four commits since it
are unreleased -- and a step where the changelog is assembled by whoever
remembers to. release-please proposes the version and the notes as a pull
request instead, and tags when it is merged.

Nothing about the tag shape changes. include-component-in-tag is false, so
releases stay vX.Y.Z rather than becoming spec/vX.Y.Z, and the manifest
starts at 0.9.0 so numbering continues from the current release instead of
restarting. bump-minor-pre-major keeps the pre-1.0 convention the
specification already follows, where a breaking change bumps the minor.

release-type is simple because the root package.json is private and carries
no version of its own; simple tracks the version in version.txt.

One consequence worth naming in review: release notes become generated from
conventional commits, where v0.9.0's were written by hand. Anything that
needs saying beyond the commit subjects -- the breaking-change callout at
the top of v0.9.0, say -- now has to be added to the release pull request
before it is merged.

This is deliberately the whole of it: a single package, no tag separator
and no component tagging, because there is nothing else in the repository
to release yet.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
Three inputs in the workflow were written against the v3 action and are
silently ignored by v5, which is worse than an error because the workflow
still runs and appears to work:

- command: manifest is not an input. v5 is manifest-mode whenever a config
  file is present, which it is.
- default-branch was renamed target-branch.
- signoff moved to the configuration file, as $.signoff.

The last one matters here. This repository enforces DCO, so an ignored
signoff means release-please's own commits arrive without a Signed-off-by
line and its release pull request fails the DCO check -- the failure the
option was added to prevent. It is now a key in release-please-config.json,
where v5 reads it.

Also adds issues: write, which the action's own recommended permissions
block carries; release-please labels its pull requests, and labelling goes
through the issues API.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
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Two packages. The specification keeps its bare vX.Y.Z tags and excludes the
assets path, so an asset-only change does not cut a spec release. The assets are
a Go component, tagged specification/assets/provider-tck/vX.Y.Z, which is the
shape go get needs -- without it a Go consumer can only name a pseudo-version.

Replaces #431, which configured the specification package alone.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
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Superseded by #423, which now carries the release-please configuration alongside the conformance assets.

Everything here is in that config, plus a second package: the assets are tagged as their own Go component (specification/assets/provider-tck/vX.Y.Z), which is the tag shape go get needs, and the specification package excludes that path so an asset-only change does not cut a spec release. Both fixes from the review here came along — issues: write, and target-branch rather than the command/default-branch inputs v5 ignores.

Closing in favour of #423.

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