ci: bump release-drafter to v7.3.0 and drop pull_request trigger#234
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Family-wide fix following amcheste/engineering-handbook#18. release-drafter v7 changed how target_commitish is resolved on pull_request events: v6 fell back to the configured default branch, v7 passes GITHUB_REF through unchanged (refs/pull/N/merge on a PR event). The Releases API rejects that value, so the action fails on every PR. v7 also moved autolabeling into a separate action, so the drafter step only needs push events on develop/main. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: amcheste <13696614+amcheste@users.noreply.github.com>
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Family-wide fix following engineering-handbook#18 and repo-template#13.
Why
release-drafter v7 changed how
target_commitishis resolved onpull_requestevents:GITHUB_REFthrough unchanged. On a PR event, that'srefs/pull/N/merge— which the GitHub Releases API rejects (target must be a branch or commit SHA).Result: the action fails on every PR with
Validation Failed: target_commitish(or runs silently broken on v7 if no v6 dependabot bump surfaced it yet).Two changes
pull_request:fromon:. v7 split autolabeling into a separate action (release-drafter/release-drafter/autolabeler@v7). The drafter step only needspushevents on develop/main.