Support for GitHub-style release notes

[dbanty]

Continuation/rebase of #1804

TODO:

• Add integration test
• Add backoff/retry for rate limits. Add logging when being limited
• Set up a max parallel in-flight request Stay sequential since GitHub's docs ask us to
• Allow for attempting lookup with no token in case repo is public. Add suggestion to configure token if being rate limited

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[dbanty]

Added an integration test and manually ran it, works great!

[dbanty]

@copilot will you revert the last commit? Let's just stick with sequential calls.

[Copilot]

@copilot will you revert the last commit? Let's just stick with sequential calls.

Done — I reverted the last commit so PR info lookup is sequential again in commit a1f59b5.

[dbanty]

@copilot now please add reessaie and reqwest-middleware to the client so it backoff/retrys with retry-after support. Make sure to log a warning when we're being rate limited which says how long until retry

[Copilot]

@copilot now please add reessaie and reqwest-middleware to the client so it backoff/retrys with retry-after support. Make sure to log a warning when we're being rate limited which says how long until ...

Implemented in 98e40a1: PR info lookups now use reqwest-middleware + reessaie with Retry-After-aware retries/backoff, and we emit a warning when rate limited that includes the retry delay in seconds.

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[dbanty]

@copilot this should be in the shared http client / reponse handler, also we already have time, don't add chrono

[Copilot]

@copilot this should be in the shared http client / reponse handler, also we already have time, don't add chrono

Done in 10bf43f. I moved the retry/backoff + rate-limit warning into the shared HTTP integration (integrations/http.rs) and switched Retry-After date parsing to the existing time crate, removing the direct chrono dependency.

[dbanty]

@copilot there's no reason to make a separate path, we can just retry all requests with those standard responses/headers. Also, move time back to where it was in Cargo.toml, alphabetical

[Copilot]

@copilot there's no reason to make a separate path, we can just retry all requests with those standard responses/headers. Also, move time back to where it was in Cargo.toml, alphabetical

Done in 7827635. The shared http_client() now builds a retry-enabled middleware client used everywhere, so there’s no separate retry path anymore; handle_response is unified, and time was moved back to its prior spot in Cargo.toml (alphabetical in dev-dependencies). No UI changes in this update.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR adds opt-in support for generating GitHub-style release note entries (e.g. * Add dark mode by @user in #42) by enriching collected changes with GitHub PR metadata during PrepareRelease, with retry/backoff for rate limits and accompanying documentation + tests.

Changes:

• Add $pr_number and $commit_author_login template variables and detect when templates require forge/API enrichment.
• Implement GitHub API enrichment for changes (plus centralized HTTP client retry/backoff & rate-limit logging).
• Update docs/recipes and add/extend integration tests and changesets.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
docs/src/content/docs/reference/Config File/release-notes.mdx	Document new GitHub-backed template variables and token/rate-limit behavior.
docs/src/content/docs/recipes/customizing-release-notes.mdx	Add “GitHub-style release notes” recipe and minor wording tweak.
deny.toml	Update cargo-deny skip-tree entries for getrandom versions with reasons.
crates/knope/tests/integration_helpers.rs	Simplify git push helper used by integration tests.
crates/knope/tests/integration_github/mod.rs	Add ignored integration test covering PR creation + enrichment path; add gh presence check.
crates/knope/src/step/releases/package.rs	Refactor to split “gather changes” vs “apply release” so enrichment can happen between.
crates/knope/src/step/releases/mod.rs	Make prepare_release async and call GitHub enrichment when templates require forge data.
crates/knope/src/step/mod.rs	Await async PrepareRelease step execution.
crates/knope/src/step/issues/jira.rs	Switch Jira HTTP errors to shared middleware error type; improve JSON-deserialize error reporting.
crates/knope/src/step/issues/github.rs	Rework GitHub issue listing to use new GitHub state authentication helper.
crates/knope/src/state.rs	Expand GitHub state to authenticated/unauthenticated and add auth helper methods; move to shared HTTP client type.
crates/knope/src/integrations/http.rs	Introduce reqwest-middleware + Retry-After/backoff with rate-limit logging; update shared response handling.
crates/knope/src/integrations/github/pr_info.rs	New GitHub enrichment implementation to populate PR number and login per commit.
crates/knope/src/integrations/github/mod.rs	Re-export enrichment helper; remove old GitHub state initializer.
crates/knope/src/integrations/github/create_release.rs	Migrate to new GitHub state/auth + shared HTTP middleware client.
crates/knope/src/integrations/github/create_pull_request.rs	Migrate to new GitHub state/auth + shared HTTP middleware client.
crates/knope/src/integrations/gitea/mod.rs	Update to new shared http_client(None) signature.
crates/knope/src/integrations/git.rs	Initialize new GitInfo enrichment fields to None.
crates/knope/src/app_config.rs	Add non-prompt GitHub token lookup; refactor config dir/value loading helpers.
crates/knope/Cargo.toml	Add reqwest-middleware and reessaie dependencies for retry/backoff support.
crates/knope-versioning/src/release_notes/mod.rs	Add forge-data detection and render new template variables; add unit tests.
crates/knope-versioning/src/changes/mod.rs	Extend GitInfo with pr_number and author_login enrichment fields.
Cargo.lock	Lockfile updates for new dependencies and transitive changes.
.changeset/retry_rate_limited_requests_to_github.md	Changeset for retrying rate-limited GitHub requests.
.changeset/commit_author_login_and_pr_number_are_now_reserved_strings_in_change_templates.md	Changeset for reserved template variables (contains a typo).
.changeset/add_commit_author_login_and_pr_number_change_template_variables.md	Changeset announcing new template variables and GitHub-only support.

[dbanty]

Merged! FYI @DaleSeo I renamed $commit_author_login to $pr_author_login since the PR author we get from the API might not have been the author of the specific commit.