release-please (Google)

[inesiscosta]

Implement release-please (Google) to automate versioning, changelog generation, and GitHub Releases for neiist's website. This will give us a clear release history, improve CI/CD flow, and make production deployments safer and easier to roll back.

https://github.com/googleapis/release-please

Goals

• Automatically create release PRs when changes land on main.
• Auto-generate and maintain CHANGELOG.md.
• Automatically create semantic version tags (v1.0.1, v1.1.0, etc.).
• Automatically create GitHub Releases with release notes.
• Integrate tags with our prod deployment workflow.
• Keep staging exactly as is (main → staging auto-deploy).
• Keep manual deploy option to allow rollback to any previous tag.

[DanMPA]

Currently testing on fork of project.

[DanMPA]

Example of how it will look:

[DanMPA]

Something that we need to look at is how the CHANGELOG.md will look when integrating release-pls. At the moment it will generate a log since the start of the repo, we can override this by edited CHANGELOG.md committing a new CHANGELOG.md.