From d0a067e89d9b3e7ffa44f0a1fab75332810bf792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Owen <thomas.owen@ons.gov.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:16:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(ci): Use release-please to orchestrate releases

---
 .github/workflows/release-please.yml |  19 ++++
 .github/workflows/release.yml        | 144 ---------------------------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/release-please.yml
 delete mode 100644 .github/workflows/release.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..177ff8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+  issues: write
+
+name: release-please
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          release-type: python
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 48d2482..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,144 +0,0 @@
-name: Create Release
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      version:
-        description: 'Version number (e.g., 0.2.0)'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-
-permissions:
-  contents: write
-
-jobs:
-  validate-changelog:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Validate changelog contains version
-        run: |
-          set -e
-          VERSION="${{ inputs.version }}"
-          PATTERN="^## \[(v)?${VERSION}\]"
-          echo "Checking CHANGELOG.md for header: $PATTERN"
-          MATCH_COUNT=$(grep -c -E "$PATTERN" CHANGELOG.md || true)
-          if [ "$MATCH_COUNT" -eq 0 ]; then
-            echo "ERROR: No changelog section found for v$VERSION" >&2
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          if [ "$MATCH_COUNT" -gt 1 ]; then
-            echo "ERROR: Multiple changelog sections found for v$VERSION" >&2
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          echo "Changelog validation passed."
-
-  extract-changelog:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: validate-changelog
-    outputs:
-      notes_artifact: release_notes
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Extract changelog section
-        run: |
-          set -e
-          VERSION="${{ inputs.version }}"
-          awk -v ver="$VERSION" '
-          $0 ~ ("^## \\[v?" ver "\\]") {flag=1}
-          /^## \[/{
-              if (flag && $0 !~ ("^## \\[v?" ver "\\]")) exit
-          }
-          flag
-          ' CHANGELOG.md > raw_release_notes.md || {
-          echo "Failed to extract changelog section" >&2; exit 1; }
-          # Trim trailing blank lines
-          awk 'NF{p=1} p' raw_release_notes.md > release_notes.md
-          echo "Extracted release notes:"; cat release_notes.md
-      - name: Upload release notes artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: release_notes
-          path: release_notes.md
-
-  release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: extract-changelog
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0  # Fetch all history for changelog generation
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
-        with:
-          python-version: "3.12"
-
-      - name: Install uv
-        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
-
-      - name: Configure Git
-        run: |
-          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
-          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
-
-      - name: Bump version with uv
-        run: |
-          uv version ${{ inputs.version }}
-
-      - name: Commit version bump
-        run: |
-          git add pyproject.toml
-          git commit --allow-empty -m "Bump version to ${{ inputs.version }}"
-          git push
-
-      - name: Download extracted release notes
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: release_notes
-          path: release_notes
-
-      - name: Create and push tag
-        run: |
-          git tag "v${{ inputs.version }}"
-          git push origin "v${{ inputs.version }}"
-
-      - name: Create GitHub Release
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-        run: |
-          gh release create "v${{ inputs.version }}" \
-            --title "Release ${{ inputs.version }}" \
-            --notes-file release_notes/release_notes.md
-
-  add-wheel:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: release
-    environment: release
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
-        with:
-          python-version: "3.12"
-      - name: Install uv
-        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
-      - name: Bump version with uv
-        run: |
-          uv version ${{ inputs.version }}
-      - name: Build
-        run: |
-          uv build
-      - name: Upload wheel to release
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-        run: |
-          RELEASE_TAG="v${{ inputs.version }}"
-          for wheel in dist/*.whl; do
-            gh release upload "$RELEASE_TAG" "$wheel" --clobber
-          done