ci: bump release-drafter to v7.3.0 and drop pull_request trigger#18
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Dependabot bumped release-drafter from v6 to v7.2.1 in #14, but the update failed CI. Root cause: v7 changed how target_commitish is resolved on pull_request events. v6 fell back to the default branch; v7 passes GITHUB_REF through unchanged, which on a PR event is refs/pull/N/merge. The GitHub Releases API rejects that — target must be a branch name or commit SHA. Two cleanups in one: 1. Remove pull_request from the on: block. release-drafter v7 moved autolabeling into a separate action (release-drafter/release-drafter/autolabeler). The drafter step itself only needs push events to develop/main to keep the draft current. 2. Pin to v7.3.0 (latest), not v7.2.1 (dependabot's stale snapshot). Closes the loop that #14 opened. Future dependabot bumps inside the v7 line will be clean. 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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Fixes the failure that closed dependabot #14.
Root cause
release-drafter v7 changed how
target_commitishis resolved onpull_requestevents. In v6, the action defaulted to the configured branch; in v7 it passesGITHUB_REFthrough unchanged. On a PR event,GITHUB_REFisrefs/pull/N/merge— which the GitHub Releases API rejects as atarget_commitishvalue (must be a branch name or commit SHA).Failure log from #14:
Two changes in one PR
Remove
pull_request:fromon:. release-drafter v7 split autolabeling into a separate action (release-drafter/release-drafter/autolabeler@v7). The drafter step only needspushevents on develop/main to keep the draft current —pull_requestwas load-bearing only for the (now-removed) bundled autolabel feature.Pin to v7.3.0, not v7.2.1. v7.3.0 is the latest at the time of writing; dependabot's chore: bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 6.4.0 to 7.2.1 #14 was bumping to an older snapshot.
Follow-up
The same workflow shape lives in
repo-template— a mirror PR will follow there so future-spawned repos don't inherit the bug.