ci: add release-please-develop pre-release workflow

[SoulPancake]

Adds a release-please-develop workflow enabling pre-release (alpha/beta/rc) releases from the develop branch, via workflow_dispatch or on merge of a release: PR. It is a thin caller around the shared openfga/.github reusable release-please-prerelease.yml, mirroring the existing release-please main flow.

Reference: https://github.com/openfga/js-sdk/blob/main/.github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Added automated prerelease workflow support for changes pushed to the development branch.
  • Added the option to manually trigger prerelease automation with a specified release version.
  • Improved release automation permissions and signing support.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds a new GitHub Actions workflow to support a pre-release lane from the develop branch, delegating the actual release logic to the shared openfga/.github reusable workflow (pinned by SHA) to keep implementation consistent across SDK repos.

Changes:

• Introduces .github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml to generate/publish pre-releases from develop.
• Supports both workflow_dispatch (explicit pre-release version input) and push to develop gated on release:-prefixed merge commits.
• Configures job-level permissions and passes expected inputs (base-branch, staging-branch, trigger-event) to the reusable workflow.

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Walkthrough

Adds a GitHub Actions workflow that runs prerelease automation for develop, supports manual version input, gates execution to approved events, and passes release, branch, permission, and signing configuration to a pinned reusable workflow.

Changes

Develop prerelease automation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure develop prerelease release flow .github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml	Adds push and manual triggers, read/write permissions, execution gating, pinned reusable workflow wiring, prerelease version and branch settings, and release/signing secrets.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• openfga/cli#717: Uses pinned openfga/.github reusable release workflows in GitHub Actions configuration.

Suggested reviewers: curfew-marathon, copilot

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly matches the main change: adding a develop-focused release-please pre-release workflow.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch feat/release-please-develop

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml:
- Around line 26-31: Update the reusable workflow’s release-version handling so
the workflow input is passed through an environment variable and validated
before use, rather than interpolated into the parse-release.sh invocation or
commit commands. Preserve the required alpha/beta/rc format validation, use the
validated value safely in shell steps, and update the referenced commit pin to
include this fix.
- Around line 14-16: Update the trigger comments near the reusable prerelease
workflow to clarify that it creates the signed tag and draft release, while
publication is performed downstream by a separate workflow; do not describe this
workflow as publishing the release.

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• Push a commit to this branch (recommended)
• Create a new PR with the fixes

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• .github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml

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