Turn crate-template into a reusable crates.io crate publishing template

[Copilot]

This PR replaces the placeholder repository state with a reusable Rust crate template derived from globazog-rs, while removing project-specific crate implementation and planning artifacts. The result keeps the automation and repository scaffolding needed to bootstrap a publishable crates.io crate with minimal follow-up edits.

• Workspace template

  • Adds a generic Cargo workspace with a single placeholder crate at crates/your-crate-name
  • Replaces project-specific manifest metadata with explicit template placeholders for crate name, repository URLs, authorship, and docs.rs
  • Includes a minimal library + smoke test so the template is immediately buildable and easy to specialize

• Release and publishing automation

  • Carries over release-please, CodeQL, Dependabot, CI, and encoding checks
  • Generalizes release config from globazog to a template package name
  • Updates the publish workflow to derive the crate name from workspace metadata instead of hardcoding project-specific values

• Documentation and planning scaffolding

  • Rewrites README.md, DEVELOPMENT.md, CHECKLIST.md, PLANS.md, and DESIGN-NOTES.md as template-oriented guidance
  • Leaves DESIGN-NOTES.md as a placeholder for future project design decisions
  • Removes the completed project checklist and other globazog-specific content

• Copilot and repository hygiene

  • Retains Copilot instructions, but rewrites them for a generic template repository rather than the original crate
  • Preserves line-ending and repository hygiene settings needed by the existing CI/tooling

Example placeholder crate shape:

/// Returns a greeting for the provided crate or project name.
#[must_use]
pub fn greeting(name: &str) -> String {
    format!("hello from {name}")
}

Original prompt

take the contents of the MikeGrier/globazob-rs repository's main branch, remove the actual globazog crate, and make it into a generic template repository for how to construct and publish crates that publish on crates.io.

so retain the copilot instructions and CI system, get rid of the particulars of the existing crate(s), the existing checklists and completed checklists. perhaps leave the root DESIGN-NOTES.md with only a placeholder description of what should go there. generally scrub the repository of content specific to the "globazog" crate/project, and add whatever would be necessary so that when creating a new repository from this template, it would either automatically specialize or be easily specialized to the task at hand.

[MikeGrier]

The "smoke.rs" test seems like it is kind of specific still. It's not a bad idea to call out the need for basic tests but Mojibake as a top level concern in the comments?

[MikeGrier]

@copilot-swe-agent[bot] , can you read my last comment and act on it

[Copilot]

@copilot-swe-agent[bot] , can you read my last comment and act on it

Addressed in 9077670. The integration smoke test is now generic and only verifies that the crate builds in an integration-test context, without depending on the placeholder greeting API.

[MikeGrier]

LGTM

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR reworks the repository into a reusable template for creating and publishing a crates.io Rust crate, including a placeholder workspace member, documentation scaffolding, and generalized GitHub Actions automation (CI, release-please, publishing, CodeQL, Dependabot).

Changes:

• Adds a single-member Cargo workspace with a placeholder crate (crates/your-crate-name) plus minimal library code and tests.
• Introduces/updates automation for CI, release-please, and tag-based crates.io publishing (including a workspace-metadata-driven publish step).
• Replaces project-specific docs/artifacts with template-oriented guidance and placeholders (README/DEVELOPMENT/CHECKLIST/PLANS/DESIGN-NOTES).

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 23 out of 25 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
tools/check-encoding.ps1	Adds a PowerShell UTF-8/mojibake checker used by CI.
release-please-config.json	Adds template release-please configuration for versioning.
README.md	Rewrites root README as template usage/release instructions.
PLANS.md	Adds placeholder for short-lived implementation plans.
LICENSE	Adds MIT license text for the template repository.
DEVELOPMENT.md	Adds contributor command and release setup guidance.
DESIGN-NOTES.md	Adds placeholder for durable design decisions.
crates/your-crate-name/tests/smoke.rs	Adds minimal integration test to ensure crate links/compiles.
crates/your-crate-name/src/lib.rs	Adds placeholder API and a unit test.
crates/your-crate-name/README.md	Adds placeholder crate README.
crates/your-crate-name/Cargo.toml	Adds placeholder crate manifest inheriting workspace metadata.
CHECKLIST.md	Adds template specialization checklist.
CHANGELOG.md	Adds initial changelog for template contents.
Cargo.toml	Adds workspace root manifest with template metadata and release profile.
Cargo.lock	Adds lockfile for the placeholder workspace member.
.release-please-manifest.json	Adds release-please manifest for version tracking.
.gitignore	Adds Rust/template-focused ignore rules.
.github/workflows/release-please.yml	Adds release-please workflow plus Cargo.lock update on release PRs.
.github/workflows/publish-crate.yml	Adds tag-triggered crates.io publish workflow using workspace metadata.
.github/workflows/codeql.yml	Adds CodeQL workflow for Actions and Rust.
.github/workflows/ci.yml	Adds CI workflow running encoding check, build/test, fmt, clippy, and MSRV.
.github/dependabot.yml	Adds Dependabot updates for Actions and Cargo.
.github/copilot-instructions.md	Updates Copilot instructions for a generic crate template repo.
.github/actions/workspace-version/action.yml	Adds composite action to read workspace.package version from Cargo.toml.
.gitattributes	Adds line-ending normalization and binary file attributes.

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