chore(release): credit commit authors in the changelog

[narnaud]

The release notes already carry the credits, but CHANGELOG.md did not. Apply
them on the release-please branch, before the pull request is merged, so the
changelog is credited at the tag instead of one commit later on main.
release-please force-pushes that branch on every run, so the step reapplies
them each time; a credited entry no longer ends in a commit link, which makes
the pass idempotent.

The release notes keep their own step: release-please builds the release body
from the pull request body, not from the changelog file. Both now share the
compare-API lookup in .github/scripts/credit-authors.sh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com
Change-Id: I5d91601965848e0a51d603f2a1b9aef9eb4b0cde

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Release changelogs now automatically credit authors of included changes.
  • Author attribution is added only to matching changelog entries, leaving unrelated entries unchanged.
  • Repeated release processing avoids duplicate author credits.

• Improvements

  • Author details are applied consistently, including fallback handling when preferred profile information is unavailable.
  • Release branches can automatically publish updated changelog attributions when changes are detected.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds credit-authors.sh to annotate changelog entries with commit authors. The release workflow uses the script for release notes and release-branch changelog updates, with authenticated checkout and conditional commit-and-push behavior.

Changes

Release author attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Author-crediting script .github/scripts/credit-authors.sh	The script retrieves paginated commit data from GitHub, prefers login names, matches existing commit links, appends author credits, and atomically replaces updated files.
Release workflow integration .github/workflows/release-please.yaml	The workflow checks out the repository with RELEASE_TOKEN, uses the script for release-note updates, and credits CHANGELOG.md on release branches before committing and pushing changes when needed.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHub Actions
  participant Release Please
  participant credit-authors.sh
  participant GitHub API
  participant CHANGELOG.md
  GitHub Actions->>GitHub Actions: Check out with RELEASE_TOKEN
  GitHub Actions->>Release Please: Create or update release
  GitHub Actions->>credit-authors.sh: Pass release comparison and changelog file
  credit-authors.sh->>GitHub API: Retrieve paginated commits and authors
  credit-authors.sh->>CHANGELOG.md: Append authors to matching commit links
  GitHub Actions->>GitHub Actions: Commit and push changed changelog

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Inline comments:
In @.github/scripts/credit-authors.sh:
- Around line 1-28: Update the author extraction in the gh api/jq pipeline
before the values are stored in the authors map so `@tsv-escaped` author text is
decoded, preserving literal ampersands and single backslashes when awk appends
the value. Keep the existing login-versus-commit.author.name selection and
author lookup behavior unchanged.

In @.github/workflows/release-please.yaml:
- Line 14: Update the actions/checkout reference in the workflow to use the
trusted full immutable commit SHA instead of the mutable v7 tag, while retaining
the “# v7” version comment.
- Around line 58-59: Update the release branch setup around git fetch and git
checkout to fetch the remote branch into an explicit remote-tracking ref, then
create or reset the local branch from that ref so checkout reliably succeeds.
Preserve the existing BRANCH-based flow used for changelog credit pushes.

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