[FR]: Increase release frequency for better bzlmod compatibility

[tpudlik]

Does the feature exist in the most recent commit?

N/A

Why do we need this feature?

The Bazel ecosystem is gradually migrating to use bzlmod. Bzlmod is great because it takes care of managing transitive dependencies. But this only works well if projects use versioned releases.

This is a little tricky for googletest because historically there's only been about one release a year (not counting occasional bugfix releases), and users were encouraged to pin the top of the main branch instead.

Would it be possible for googletest to transition to a model with more frequent releases?

@wyv FYI.

Describe the proposal.

My particular selfish motivation is that I'd like to see https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/e54519b09463cec3aea77a1739e02c97ca766da5 make it into a release, but I think this would be generally useful.

Is the feature specific to an operating system, compiler, or build system version?

No.