ci: automate creation of GitHub releases and tags

[galargh]

Follow up to #473 (comment)

[BigLep]

I added some draft text for updating the release process in the README.

That said, I'm wondering if we can have the asset creation/attaching happen before the PR gets merged that way someone can see the assets before merging the PR.

[galargh]

@BigLep In other repos, we can; here, the current instructions don't mention anything about asset creation or upload.

[BigLep]

@BigLep In other repos, we can; here, the current instructions don't mention anything about asset creation or upload.

Yeah, I know the instructions don't mention anything about asset creation (doh - bummer). But from looking at https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-ffi/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L152 , doesn't it happen on a tag? I'm wondering if we can adjust the triggering conditions and get it into the instructions.

[BigLep]

2024-08-01 conversation with IPDX/FilOz: @galargh will assess week of 2024-08-05 to see if asset creation can be executed in the proposed flow or whether needs separate dedicated work task.

[galargh]

2024-08-01 conversation with IPDX/FilOz: @galargh will assess week of 2024-08-05 to see if asset creation can be executed in the proposed flow or whether needs separate dedicated work task.

Done in dd6b34e 💪

[BigLep]

Things look good to me once we have the README correct about the new reality.

[galargh]

The release process and possible improvements for the future were now described in a9cacd9.

[BigLep]

I have the same RELEASE.md questions/comments as had in filecoin-project/builtin-actors#1571 (review) . Otherwise it looks good to me.

[BigLep]

I added a couple of suggestions that had from filecoin-project/builtin-actors#1571

I'm going to commit those and then merge as had verbal during 2024-08-14 Lotus maintainers call where @Stebalien said these changes are good given we don't have to do crate publishing.

[galargh]

Thank you for all the reviews, and help getting it merged 🙇