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feat: add a command for promoting components to GA

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
release, tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the component README conventions and the relevant entries in .repo-metadata.full.json, then investigate how release-please handles pre-1.0 and stable versions. Done means a command automates the documented preview-to-GA changes and has a clear decision for the release-please step.

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Description

We often move components from preview to GA (pre-1.0 to 1.0).

Create a command that makes the necessary changes. This includes:

  • migrating the README to say that the component is stable/GA
  • updating the component in .repo-metadata.full.json from "preview" to "stable"
  • potentially tell release-please to make the next version stable (I'm quite sure how this would work...)

This is all for now, but in the future there could be more steps, so it'd be nice to have them automated.

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