Creates a tool for staging and publishing releases as per the
new branching and versioning that has been outlined in the following
document. The tool is intended to be used across the organization to
ensure consistent branching/versioning and labeling:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/197kVillDwx-RZtSVOBtPb4BBIAw0E9RT3q3v6DZkykU/edit#heading=h.s3qlps8f4zq7dd
The tool implements the actions as outlined in the following
initial plan: https://hackmd.io/2Le8leq0S6G_R5VEVTNK9A.
The implementation slightly diverged in so far that it performs
staging and publishing together so that releasing is a single
convenient command. In case of errors for which re-running the
full command is not sufficient, we want to consider adding
recover functionality. e.g. when the staging completed, but the
actual NPM publishing aborted unexpectedly due to build errors.
PR Close#38656
Instead of repeating the logic for adding the github token to
a repository git url, we add a shared function for automatically
computing the URls with token.
Additionally, URLs for updating/generating tokens have been moved
to a dedicated file in the `utils` folder. Also while being at it,
the yargs github token helper is also moved into the dedicated
Git/Github related util folder.
PR Close#38656
George Kalpakas
Paul Gschwendtner