chore: update release drafter

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Pull Request

What does this PR do?

• Update release drafter configuration to avoid conflicts between main and v1.x branches

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Improved release notes formatting: removed redundant headers, consolidated contributor acknowledgment into a single line, and added a clear "See full changelog" link.
  • Standardized version display with a consistent version template.
  • Ensured drafts target the correct branch/ref by adding a filter-by-commitish option and passing the current Git ref to the release workflow.
  • Cleaned automated bot mentions for clearer contributor lists.

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Walkthrough

Add commitish-based filtering to release-drafter configs, update release note templates (remove "What's Changed" header, adjust footer to "Thanks to $CONTRIBUTORS! 🎉" and "See full changelog"), add commitish input to the workflow, and include bot-name replacers in the v1 template.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Release draft templates .github/release-draft-template.yml, .github/release-draft-template-v1.yml	Add filter-by-commitish: true; remove the “What’s Changed” header; change footer to “Thanks to $CONTRIBUTORS! 🎉” and add “See full changelog”; keep $CHANGES.
Bot-name replacers (v1 template) .github/release-draft-template-v1.yml	Add replacers to strip bot mentions (e.g., @dependabot-preview[bot], @dependabot[bot], @meili-bors[bot], @meili-bot).
Release drafter workflow .github/workflows/release-drafter.yml	Pass commitish: ${{ github.ref_name }} to release-drafter@v6 via the with inputs.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    actor Dev as Developer
    participant GH as GitHub Workflow
    participant RD as release-drafter@v6
    participant CFG as release-draft-template*.yml

    Dev->>GH: Push / Tag / PR merge (ref)
    GH->>RD: Run action with commitish = github.ref_name
    RD->>CFG: Load config (filter-by-commitish = true)
    RD->RD: Filter commits by commitish
    RD->RD: Generate notes ($CHANGES, Thanks to $CONTRIBUTORS, See full changelog)
    alt Replacers present (v1 template)
        RD->RD: Remove bot mentions via regex replacers
    end
    RD-->>Dev: Draft release notes

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Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• chore: update ci for v2 #793 — Similar updates to release-drafter templates and workflow inputs, including bot replacers and commitish handling.

Suggested reviewers

• brunoocasali
• curquiza
• norkunas

Poem

I thump my paws: a tidy draft, hooray!
Bots hop aside, their mentions swept away.
Commitish follows the branch I chase,
Notes now neat, in one sweet place.
Carrots up for changelogs clean— a rabbit’s grace! 🥕✨

Pre-merge checks and finishing touches

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title Check	✅ Passed	The title "chore: update release drafter" is concise, uses a conventional commit prefix, and accurately captures the primary change of updating Release Drafter configuration and templates, so it clearly conveys the PR's main purpose to reviewers.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changes. Docstring coverage check skipped.

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📒 Files selected for processing (3)

• .github/release-draft-template-v1.yml (2 hunks)
• .github/release-draft-template.yml (2 hunks)
• .github/workflows/release-drafter.yml (1 hunks)

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Actionable comments posted: 0

🧹 Nitpick comments (2)

.github/release-draft-template-v1.yml (1)

31-34: Ensure contributors line handles "no contributors" case

Confirmed: $CONTRIBUTORS is an official Release Drafter variable; when no human contributors are found it renders the no-contributors-template value (default: "No contributors").
Action: set no-contributors-template to an empty/alternate phrase or change the line so it won’t produce "Thanks to No contributors! 🎉" (file: .github/release-draft-template-v1.yml lines 31–34).

.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml (1)

15-17: Passing commitish as the branch name is correct — pin the action and apply least‑privilege.

• Pin the action: use release-drafter/[email protected] (or an immutable commit SHA, e.g. b1476f6…).
• Add workflow permissions:
  permissions:
  contents: write
  pull-requests: read
• Optional: prevent racing updates with a concurrency block:
  concurrency:
  group: release-drafter-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

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📒 Files selected for processing (3)

• .github/release-draft-template-v1.yml (2 hunks)
• .github/release-draft-template.yml (2 hunks)
• .github/workflows/release-drafter.yml (1 hunks)

🔇 Additional comments (3)

.github/release-draft-template-v1.yml (1)

3-6: v1 defaults are sensible.

filter-by-commitish: true and version-template: "1.0.0" align with maintaining the v1 line. No issues.

.github/release-draft-template.yml (2)

29-35: Template tweaks look fine — compare link verified.

Git tags exist (v1.9.1 → v1.16.1), so $PREVIOUS_TAG will be present for the next v1.x release; add a fallback for an empty $PREVIOUS_TAG if you expect a first v2.x cut to avoid a transient broken compare URL.

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3-3: Good call enabling commitish filtering.
Verified: Release Drafter v6 supports both the commitish input and the filter-by-commitish config flag (v6 docs/README).