From 9e128802deb8b3a26e55bdca026cd92e2de98f21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucian Buzzo <lucian.buzzo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 10:31:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore: use release-please to automate versioning, changelogs
 and GitHub releases

Using this action, as long as contributors follow the [conventional commit guidelines](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/)
new versions, releases and changelog updates can be automated.
This action can also be extended to [automate npm publishing](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please-action#automating-publication-to-npm) on version-up.
For maintainers this reduces a lot of overhead in the "admin" of new
releases, and for consumers it increases clarity on new changes.
Note that for the PRs created by release-please to be able to trigger
further GitHub actions, a `token` will need to be provided. In this case
I've pointed to a secret called `RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN`. See
https://github.com/googleapis/release-please-action#github-credentials
for more information on this.
---
 .github/workflows/release-please.yml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/release-please.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9aeda54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Automate generation of release PRs using Conventional Commits
+# This workflow will create a release PR when a branch is merged into master,
+# reading the conventional commit message to determine the next semantic version 
+# for the package. This commit data is also used to generate a changelog for the release.
+# See:
+# - https://github.com/googleapis/release-please
+# - https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+name: release-please
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          release-type: node
+          # See https://github.com/googleapis/release-please-action#github-credentials
+          token: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN }}