release-please.yml

name: Release PR

# Maintains an open "chore(main): release x.y.z" pull request that accumulates every
# merged change, derives the next version from the conventional-commit history, and
# rewrites CHANGELOG.md. Nothing is versioned or tagged until that PR is merged.
#
# Chosen over fully automatic publishing on purpose: releasing is irreversible on npm,
# so there is a human gate. Merging the release PR tags the commit; the actual
# `npm publish` stays in release.yml, which is manual.
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

permissions:
  contents: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  release-please:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
        with:
          release-type: node
          # Keeps the existing hand-written CHANGELOG entries intact by appending
          # below the header rather than replacing the file.
          changelog-notes-type: default