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dan-claude-bot b58ce5524f feat: merging a release-labeled PR is the release (#96)
The 0.7.0 ceremony exposed the gap: the release PR merged with four
approvals and nothing happened, correctly, because publishing hung off a
separate, manual, silent-when-forgotten tag push — the worst failure
shape, no error and no red X. The ship decision already lives in the
release PR, so the merge now IS the release.

release.yml grows a second door: pull_request closed on main, gated on
merged == true AND the hand-set release label (read from the event
payload — no extra permission). Four asserts, in order, each fail-loud
and creating nothing: VERSION at the merge commit is non--dev; VERSION
changed in this PR (merge vs first parent — the -dev interlock that
kills a mislabeled ordinary PR); the version's CHANGELOG.md section
extracts non-empty via the existing release-notes.sh; and no tag or
release exists yet. Then, in the same job, it creates the tag ref at
the merge commit via the API and publishes with gh release create
--verify-tag. Same-job on purpose: a GITHUB_TOKEN-created tag triggers
no workflows (GitHub's anti-recursion), so the tag door can never fire
off it and double-publish, and the no-existing assert covers a manual
tag racing the merge. The tag-push path stays step-for-step identical
as the documented manual fallback and backfill, gated to the push event
so a closed PR never runs it against a branch ref.

CONTRIBUTING.md's Releases section now reads "the maintainer's merge IS
the release", with the manual tag ritual kept as the fallback.
test/release.sh grep-pins the merged+labeled gate, all four asserts,
the same-job tag+publish, and that the tag-push trigger survives — in
the same daemon-free, fail-closed style.

Fixes #96

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-19 15:19:31 +00:00
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scripts feat(release): publish the tagged version's changelog section (#83) 2026-07-18 22:17:51 +00:00
workflows feat: merging a release-labeled PR is the release (#96) 2026-07-19 15:19:31 +00:00
labeler.yml feat: label automation — the state reconciler, path-scoped labeler, and CONTRIBUTING 2026-07-18 18:31:51 +00:00