Draft: Testing how to automate releases

[dustin-ruetz]

This is a draft PR demonstrating how we can use semantic-release to automatically publish releases for this repository.

How to Test

1. Clone this repo locally and cd into it.
2. From the root of the repo, run git pull && git checkout ruetz-automate-releases.

This PR can be tested in two ways:

Locally

1. Prerequisite 1: Have act installed.
2. Prerequisite 2: Generate a temporary GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) (note: you can delete this token after you're done testing locally).
   • Name it GITHUB_TOKEN.
   • Configure it to have the repo, workflow, write:packages scopes.
   • Copy the resulting ghp_... token value.
3. Run the following command (replacing ghp_... with the resulting token value from Step 2): act -s GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_...

• [ ] Verify that the GHA workflows all run and succeed.
• [ ] In the Release job logs, verify that the resulting version number is bumped (as of this writing the latest release is v2.0.0; in my testing the next version results in v2.1.0).

CI/CD

1. Make a new commit on this ruetz-automate-releases branch.
2. git push it up to the remote.

• [ ] Verify that the GHA workflows all run and succeed.
• [ ] In the Release job logs, verify that the resulting version number is bumped (as of this writing the latest release is v2.0.0; in my testing the next version results in v2.1.0).