Improve release process

[johnwiseheart]

Current the release process takes a long time, and is a manual process. It would be good to improve it to the point where we can "one click release" for major/minor/patch versions, and maybe even have nightlies or weeklies based on master.

The major pain points with the release process right now are:

• Cleaning up the changelog
  • We should consider enforcing changelog changes with every PR so that this is not a manual process
• Publishing the release itself
  • We should consider generating a token and putting it into CircleCI such that we can publish in CI rather than locally.
• Releasing docs
  • We should consider using gh-pages to generate the documentation (also on CI)

@giladgray for SA

[adidahiya]

We should consider generating a token and putting it into CircleCI such that we can publish in CI rather than locally.

We don't do this because we wanted to allow external maintainers from outside Palantir, but restrict publishing privileges to Palantir maintainers (see #2985).

[johnwiseheart]

Yeah that makes sense. It seems that since we don't have any external maintainers contributing any more, we may as well prune the list and enable publishing on CI. Either that, or the second-best option which would be to create a publish script which does all the above steps, but still has to be run locally.

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

don't have any external maintainers contributing any more

Gotcha!

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