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Migrate changelog generation to `release-please`

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Description

The tool we're currently using to generate the CHANGELOG file, standard-version, has added the following note to their readme:

standard-version is deprecated. If you're a GitHub user, I recommend release-please as an alternative. I encourage folks to fork this repository and, if a fork gets popular, I will link to it in this README.

Sooner or later, we should probably migrate to use the more supported tool.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository's current standard-version setup and the CHANGELOG file, then compare the required release-please configuration and workflow. Done means changelog generation no longer depends on standard-version and release-please produces the expected CHANGELOG updates.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
github
Domain
release
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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