From 59023606b889379bc856b5145f699d150bc76057 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alon Gubkin <alon.gubkin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:54:20 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ci: automate releases with release-plz

Replace the manual release workflow with release-plz, which automatically
opens release PRs with version bumps and changelog updates, then tags,
creates GitHub Releases, and publishes to crates.io on merge.

Closes ALIEN-15

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/release-plz.yml | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 .github/workflows/release.yml     | 23 ----------------
 cliff.toml                        | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 release-plz.toml                  |  5 ++++
 4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/release-plz.yml
 delete mode 100644 .github/workflows/release.yml
 create mode 100644 cliff.toml
 create mode 100644 release-plz.toml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-plz.yml b/.github/workflows/release-plz.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de87b97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-plz.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+name: Release-plz
+
+permissions:
+  pull-requests: write
+  contents: write
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  release-plz-release-pr:
+    name: Release PR
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
+      - uses: MarcoIeni/release-plz-action@v0.5
+        with:
+          command: release-pr
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_PLZ_TOKEN }}
+
+  release-plz-release:
+    name: Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
+      - uses: MarcoIeni/release-plz-action@v0.5
+        with:
+          command: release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_PLZ_TOKEN }}
+          CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CRATES_IO_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6070d20..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-name: Release
-
-on:
-  release:
-    types: [published]
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-env:
-  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
-
-jobs:
-  publish:
-    name: Publish to crates.io
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
-      - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
-      - run: cargo publish
-        env:
-          CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CRATES_IO_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/cliff.toml b/cliff.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..efbfd6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cliff.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+[changelog]
+header = """
+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+"""
+body = """
+{%- macro remote_url() -%}
+  https://github.com/alienplatform/dockdash
+{%- endmacro -%}
+
+{% if version -%}
+    ## [{{ version | trim_start_matches(pat="v") }}] - {{ timestamp | date(format="%Y-%m-%d") }}
+{% else -%}
+    ## [Unreleased]
+{% endif -%}
+
+{% for group, commits in commits | group_by(attribute="group") %}
+    ### {{ group | upper_first }}
+    {% for commit in commits %}
+        - {% if commit.breaking %}**BREAKING** {% endif %}\
+            {{ commit.message | upper_first }} \
+            ([{{ commit.id | truncate(length=7, end="") }}]({{ self::remote_url() }}/commit/{{ commit.id }}))\
+    {% endfor %}
+{% endfor %}
+"""
+trim = true
+
+[git]
+conventional_commits = true
+filter_unconventional = true
+split_commits = false
+commit_parsers = [
+    { message = "^feat", group = "Features" },
+    { message = "^fix", group = "Bug Fixes" },
+    { message = "^doc", group = "Documentation" },
+    { message = "^perf", group = "Performance" },
+    { message = "^refactor", group = "Refactoring" },
+    { message = "^style", group = "Styling" },
+    { message = "^test", group = "Testing" },
+    { message = "^chore\\(release\\)", skip = true },
+    { message = "^chore", group = "Miscellaneous" },
+]
+filter_commits = false
+tag_pattern = "v[0-9].*"
diff --git a/release-plz.toml b/release-plz.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7408c68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-plz.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[workspace]
+changelog_config = "cliff.toml"
+changelog_update = true
+git_tag_name = "v{{ version }}"
+pr_name = "chore: release v{{ version }}"