Clarify and improve PyPI release process

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This PR helps automate and clarify portions of the PyPI release process.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Release drafts are prepared automatically, with version increments based on release labels and patch releases as the default.
  • Publishing a reviewed release triggers package builds, checks, and uploads to PyPI.
• Documentation
  • Installation guidance now covers both pip install buscar and uv add buscar, and explains installing the current repository version.
  • Release guidance explains version selection and the publishing process.
• Improvements
  • Package validation checks the built distribution in an isolated environment before upload.

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The changes update package build and version configuration, add automated draft-release setup, and revise PyPI publishing, wheel validation, and release guidance.

Changes

Release and package publishing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Package build and installation pyproject.toml, README.md	The build backend changes to setuptools with setuptools-scm. Package discovery targets buscar* under src. The README adds pip installation guidance and updates source-install and isolated wheel-validation instructions.
Draft release configuration .github/release-drafter.yml, .github/workflows/draft-release.yml, CONTRIBUTING.md	Release Drafter names releases and tags by resolved version, resolves versions from release labels, and defaults to patch. A workflow runs it on pushes to main. Contributor guidance describes release setup and draft review.
PyPI publishing and wheel validation .github/workflows/publish-pypi.yml, .github/workflows/ci.yml	The PyPI workflow validates the built wheel in an isolated environment and updates artifact upload and publishing environment settings. CI prints the package version during wheel validation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHub
  participant DraftReleaseWorkflow as draft-release.yml
  participant ReleaseDrafter
  GitHub->>DraftReleaseWorkflow: Push to main
  DraftReleaseWorkflow->>ReleaseDrafter: Run Release Drafter with GITHUB_TOKEN
  ReleaseDrafter->>GitHub: Draft release from resolved version and changelog

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a35ea

The draft-to-PyPI release flow and package version configuration align. No concrete merge-blocking risk was identified.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a35ea

Draft automation remains separate from PyPI publishing, and publishing consumes distributions only after build and wheel validation succeed. No introduced vulnerability was established. However, the new repository-write automation and publishing-environment migration warrant review; external approval rules and publisher configuration could not be confirmed.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new drafting authority is repository-scoped, not restricted by its permission declaration to draft metadata. A compromise of that action could misuse repository contents writes. The separate publishing path can distribute buscar artifacts to downstream consumers when its external PyPI identity binding authorizes publication.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Main-branch drafting does not itself trigger PyPI publication. Publication requires a published GitHub release and a separate environment-bound job with id-token: write. Build checkout has read-only repository permission and does not persist credentials.
• observed — CI success and draft review are documented release preconditions, but the publishing workflow does not itself depend on CI status. This is not established as a PR-introduced regression; external approval and branch-protection enforcement were unavailable.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Neither workflow declares concurrency serialization or an explicit rollback or recovery policy. The build-to-publish dependency preserves artifact ownership within a run, but simultaneous draft updates and repeated or partially completed PyPI uploads depend on external behavior that was not verified.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Treat the workflow and environment changes as a coordinated identity migration: verify the intended approval rules on release, confirm the exact PyPI publisher binding, and explicitly decide whether any older publisher binding should remain authorized.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main changes: documenting and automating the PyPI release process through release drafting, publishing workflow updates, and packaging configuration changes.
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…
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• README.md
• pyproject.toml

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Thanks @gwaybio !