fix(release): replace release-plz with release-please

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+name: Release-please
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+
+env:
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  issues: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Maintain Wright release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    concurrency:
+      group: release-please-${{ github.ref }}
+      cancel-in-progress: false
+    outputs:
+      release_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+      release_tag: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
+      release_commit: ${{ steps.release.outputs.sha }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          persist-credentials: true
+          token: ${{ github.token }}
+
+      - name: Run release-please
+        id: release
+        uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ github.token }}
+          config-file: release-please-config.json
+          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
+
+      - name: Synchronize checked-in release metadata
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          PR: ${{ steps.release.outputs.pr }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [[ -z "${PR}" ]]; then
+            echo 'No release-please PR requires metadata synchronization.'
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          pr_number="$(jq -r '.number // empty' <<<"${PR}")"
+          if [[ -z "${pr_number}" ]]; then
+            echo 'release-please returned a PR without a number.' >&2
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          gh pr checkout "${pr_number}"
+          version="$(tr -d '[:space:]' < version.txt)"
+          python3 scripts/sync-release-version.py --version "${version}"
+          python3 scripts/update-dist-manifests.py --version "${version}"
+          python3 scripts/verify-dist.py
+
+          git config user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
+          git config user.email '41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
+          git add Cargo.toml Cargo.lock dist
+          git diff --cached --check
+          if git diff --cached --quiet; then
+            echo "release metadata already synchronized for ${version}"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          git commit -m 'chore(release): synchronize Wright product metadata'
+          git push
+
+  release-artifacts:
+    name: Build and publish release artifacts
+    needs: release
+    if: needs.release.outputs.release_created == 'true'
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/release.yml
+    with:
+      ref: ${{ needs.release.outputs.release_commit }}
+      tag: ${{ needs.release.outputs.release_tag }}
+      commit: ${{ needs.release.outputs.release_commit }}
+    secrets: inherit
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      id-token: write
+      packages: write

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
         required: true
         type: string
       tag:
-        description: GitHub Release tag created by release-plz
+        description: GitHub Release tag created by release-please
         required: true
         type: string
       commit:
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ jobs:
           (cd release && sha256sum wright-*.tar.gz wright-*.zip > SHA256SUMS)
           ls -l release/
 
-      - name: Wait for the release-plz draft Release
+      - name: Wait for the release-please draft Release
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
         run: |
@@ -519,6 +519,7 @@ jobs:
       - publish-npm
       - publish-github-packages
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment: release
     steps:
       - name: Publish the completed draft Release
         env:

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  ".": "0.2.4"
+}

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to Wright will be documented in this file.

dist/README.md

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ install script stops covering the declared target matrix.
 
 ## Publication process
 
-The release-plz workflow creates one draft GitHub Release and calls the
+The release-please workflow creates one draft GitHub Release and calls the
 reusable release workflow (`release.yml`) with its tag and merge commit. The
 workflow keeps the Release draft until native and package-manager distribution
 stages complete:

docs/release.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ public distribution
   commit, build timestamp, and the runtime-dependency claim
   (`"requires": { "node": false, "overpy": false }`).
 
-This is the local staging path and the validation suite behind the release-plz
+This is the local staging path and the validation suite behind the release-please
 workflow; the reusable GitHub workflow publishes the per-platform archives,
 and this script verifies and packages the host platform.
 
@@ -46,18 +46,19 @@ envelope carries `wright.version` + `wright.contract`. The release archive's
 
 ## Public distribution contract
 
-A merge to `main` drives `.github/workflows/release-plz.yml`. The release
+A merge to `main` drives `.github/workflows/release-please.yml`. The release
 workflow is the single product release path:
 
-1. `release-plz release-pr` maintains a Release PR for the single product
-   package `wright-cli`. `release-plz.toml` uses `git_only = true`, so no
-   workspace crate is published to crates.io.
+1. `release-please-action` maintains one root Release PR for the Wright
+   product. `release-please-config.json` uses the `simple` release type, with
+   `version.txt` and `CHANGELOG.md` as its product-level version and changelog
+   files. No workspace crate is published to crates.io.
 2. The Release PR updates the shared workspace version, `Cargo.lock`, and the
    checked-in `dist/` metadata. All workspace crate changes are included in the
    product changelog decision.
-3. Merging that Release PR runs `release-plz release`, which creates exactly
-   one `vX.Y.Z` tag and a draft GitHub Release. The job passes the release-plz
-   tag and merge commit to the reusable `release.yml` workflow.
+3. Merging that Release PR runs release-please, which creates exactly one
+   `vX.Y.Z` tag and a draft GitHub Release. The job passes the release-please
+   tag and release commit to the reusable `release.yml` workflow.
 4. The reusable workflow verifies the tag/revision and version identity, runs
    `scripts/release.sh` and `scripts/verify-dist.py`, builds and smoke-tests the
    native matrix, attaches archives/checksums/manifests/npm tarballs to the
@@ -72,12 +73,12 @@ Release/tag available for a retry; it does not create a new product version.
 The Release PR is the release decision point. Maintainers do not enter a
 version, edit version files, create a tag, or dispatch a second workflow for
 the normal case. Review and merge the automatically maintained Release PR;
-release-plz derives the next version from the shared workspace history and
-creates the one product tag/release.
+release-please derives the next version from Conventional Commits and creates
+the one product tag/release.
 
 The `release.yml` workflow is reusable and is intentionally not triggered by a
 tag or Release event. The default Actions token cannot start a new workflow
-from a tag push; passing release-plz outputs through a job dependency keeps
+from a tag push; passing release-please outputs through a job dependency keeps
 the release in one run.
 
 ### Target matrix and artifact naming
@@ -137,11 +138,11 @@ before attaching them to the draft Release.
 ### Repository configuration
 
 Enable Actions to create and approve pull requests, and grant the default
-repository `GITHUB_TOKEN` `contents: write` and `pull-requests: write` for the
-release-plz workflow. The reusable distribution workflow also needs
+repository `GITHUB_TOKEN` `contents: write`, `issues: write`, and
+`pull-requests: write` for the release-please workflow. The reusable distribution workflow also needs
 `id-token: write` for npm provenance and `packages: write` for GitHub Packages.
 Create a protected `release` environment if publication approval is required;
-the release job is the only job that uses it.
+the final `publish-release` job is the only job that uses it.
 
 Configure these optional/required environment secrets:
 

release-please-config.json

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+  "packages": {
+    ".": {
+      "release-type": "simple",
+      "version-file": "version.txt",
+      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md",
+      "include-component-in-tag": false,
+      "draft": true,
+      "force-tag-creation": true
+    }
+  }
+}