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 release management for the develop branch.
  • Prereleases can be initiated automatically or manually with a specified release version.

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Pull request overview

Adds a new GitHub Actions workflow to enable pre-release (alpha/beta/rc) automation from the develop branch by invoking the shared openfga/.github reusable workflow, mirroring the existing stable release-please flow on main.

Changes:

• Introduces .github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml to run pre-release automation on develop (push) or via workflow_dispatch.
• Wires the workflow to the shared reusable release-please-prerelease.yml pinned by SHA, passing base-branch/staging-branch and release inputs.
• Aligns trigger/guard behavior (startsWith(..., 'release:')) and permissions structure with the existing release-please.yml workflow.

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Walkthrough

A new GitHub Actions workflow manages prerelease release-PR creation from develop, supporting push and manual triggers. Eligible runs invoke a pinned reusable workflow with branch, version, permissions, and release-signing configuration.

Changes

Develop prerelease workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Trigger and version input configuration .github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml	Adds develop push triggering and manual dispatch with a required alpha, beta, or release-candidate version input.
Conditional prerelease job wiring .github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml	Runs for manual dispatches or release: commits and delegates to the pinned reusable workflow using develop and release-develop branch settings, release inputs, permissions, and secrets.

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

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHub as GitHub event
  participant DevelopWorkflow as release-please-develop workflow
  participant ReusableWorkflow as release-please-prerelease workflow
  GitHub->>DevelopWorkflow: Push to develop or workflow_dispatch
  DevelopWorkflow->>DevelopWorkflow: Check event and release version
  DevelopWorkflow->>ReusableWorkflow: Invoke prerelease workflow with branches, inputs, and secrets
  ReusableWorkflow->>GitHub: Create or publish prerelease release PR

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🚥 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 describes the new release-please-develop pre-release workflow added in this PR.
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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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/release-please-develop.yml:
- Line 16: Update the trigger documentation comment on line 16 to state that
merging the release PR creates a signed tag and draft prerelease, while
publication is handled later by the publish workflow; remove the claim that this
trigger publishes the release.
- Line 44: Update the reusable workflow’s workflow_dispatch handling to pass
release-version through an env variable before any shell assignment, validate
that environment variable with the pre-release regex, and use it for validation
and commit operations. Then update the caller’s pinned reusable-workflow
reference in release-please-develop.yml so it points to the fixed revision.

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