fix(release-drafter): add version templates and resolver#407
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After commit 8465bc2 the workflow stopped passing tag/name inputs and expects release-drafter to compute the next version from the config. The config had no name-template, tag-template, or version-resolver, so drafts were created without a title or tag (e.g. untagged-a75edd17...). Add name-template/tag-template in the existing 'vX.Y.Z' scheme and a version-resolver that maps the labels already used by the categories section to semver bumps. The 'major' label is intentionally not part of the resolver because Dependabot uses it for the dependency's bump level, which should not promote this action to a major release. A dedicated 'breaking' label is reserved as an explicit opt-in for major bumps. Co-Authored-By: Claude <claude@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Falk Puschner <falk.puschner@staffbase.com>
The previous wording referred to the old tag-push flow. Describe the current process: Release Drafter maintains a draft on every push to main with the next version resolved from PR labels, and a human publishes from the Releases UI when ready. Co-Authored-By: Claude <claude@anthropic.com>
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After #406 switched the release workflow from a tag-push (with explicit
publish: true,name: ${{ github.ref_name }},tag: ${{ github.ref_name }}inputs) to a continuous draft model triggered onpush: main, release-drafter is now responsible for computing the next version itself. The config in.github/release-drafter.ymlwas missingname-template,tag-template, andversion-resolver, so the latest run produced an empty draft (untagged-a75edd174a086d69cb7d) without title or tag, breaking the establishedvX.Y.Znaming scheme of all prior releases up tov2.7.0.This PR restores the previous naming scheme by adding:
name-template/tag-templaterendering asv$RESOLVED_VERSIONversion-resolvermapping the labels already consumed by thecategoriessection to semver bumps (feature/enhancement→ minor,fix/bugfix/bug/chore/dependencies/documentation→ patch,breaking→ major), withdefault: patchThe Dependabot
majorlabel is intentionally not part of the resolver: in PR labels it indicates the dependency's bump level, not a major release of this action. Real major bumps are reserved for the manually appliedbreakinglabel.With these settings, the next draft will be calculated as
v2.7.1based on the currently mergedfix:/chore:/dependency PRs sincev2.7.0.Checklist
Follow-up
The existing empty draft (
untagged-a75edd174a086d69cb7d) will not be reused by release-drafter and should be deleted manually so the next workflow run can create a fresh, correctly named draft.The changes and the PR were generated by Claude.