chore(ci): restrict commit types to chore, feat and fix

[yordis]

• The open release PR proposes v1.4.9 with notes listing only two fix: commits, while that same release raises the Elixir floor to 1.18 and takes decimal from 2 to 3. Someone reading the notes would have no way to learn either fact.
• Declaring changelog-sections replaces release-please's defaults, so any type outside the declared set is not merely unlabelled, it is dropped entirely. chore was declared but hidden, which is how seven of the thirteen fork commits since the bootstrap SHA became invisible.
• Rather than keep widening the set, three types are enough: chore, feat, fix. Anything that needs to be found later belongs in one of them.
• The gate lives on the pull request title because this repository squash merges with PR_TITLE as the commit subject, so the title is what normally reaches history.
• That title is only the prefill though. The merger can retype the subject, and no repository setting locks it, so a second check reads the subjects that actually landed on main. It cannot block a bad merge, only make one visible instead of letting the commit vanish from the notes.
• Deliberately not marking anything as breaking and not forcing a major. The version stays wherever release-please puts it.

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PR Summary

Low Risk
Changes only GitHub Actions and release-please configuration; no application runtime or security-sensitive code paths.

Overview
Tightens release and commit hygiene so release-please changelogs stay accurate when the repo squash-merges using the PR title as the commit subject.

Adds .github/conventional-subject.sh and two workflows: pr-title.yml rejects PR titles that are not chore:, feat:, or fix: (optional scope/!), and main-subjects.yml re-checks non-merge subjects on pushes to main. Updates release-please-config.json so the chore section is visible in generated release notes instead of hidden.

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Walkthrough

The release configuration now shows Miscellaneous changelog entries. A new GitHub Actions workflow validates pull request titles on selected pull request events.

Changes

Changelog visibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure visible changelog entries .github/release-please-config.json	Changes the chore section from hidden to visible.

Pull request title validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validate pull request titles .github/workflows/pr-title.yml	Adds a workflow that checks pull request titles against the configured regular expression and fails non-matching titles.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequest
  participant GitHubActions
  participant TitleCheck
  PullRequest->>GitHubActions: Emit selected pull request event
  GitHubActions->>TitleCheck: Check pull request title
  TitleCheck-->>GitHubActions: Pass or exit 1

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bd5c9

A merger can edit the squash subject after validation, causing the change to be omitted or misclassified in release notes; this should be addressed before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main changes: restricting commit types to chore, feat, and fix, and updating CI validation.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the release-note issue, the allowed commit types, and the pull request title validation workflow.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch yordis/chore-surface-maintenance-in-release-notes

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/pr-title.yml:
- Around line 3-24: Update the conventional workflow around the “Check the
title” step to validate the final squash commit subject at merge time, or
configure the repository so that subject cannot be edited after approval. Ensure
the enforced subject still matches the existing chore, feat, or fix pattern used
by the workflow.

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