Automate GitHub Releases when new tags are pushed

[jacobtomlinson]

In dask/dask#11057 I added some GitHub Actions workflows to automatically create GitHub Releases when a new tag is pushed. Releases are just a page linked to a git tag with a title, some markdown text containing release notes and optional build artifacts for download.

We don't make use of the build artifact distribution in the Python community because we have PyPI and Conda Forge, but some users have expressed interest in having GitHub Releases as they show up in feeds, can be subscribed to, and generally make it easier to discover new releases in the GitHub ecosystem. See dask/dask#10956.

In this PR I've added the same GitHub Actions here which will automatically create a GitHub Release when a new tag is pushed. The release notes will be populated with the titles of all the PRs that went into the release, and have a link to the main Dask changelog at the bottom.

My goal here is to give value to the users who want Releases, but without adding any burden to the maintainer making the release. So this is pretty much set and forget once merged.

I've also created a Release for 2024.4.2 here manually because the Action needs at least one existing release as a frame of reference to calculate the changelog. We can manually clean this up after the next release.

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Unit Test Results

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 4 060 tests  -     5   3 954 ✅ ±    0     97 💤  -  12   9 ❌ + 7 
55 925 runs  +4 930  53 751 ✅ +5 027  2 162 💤  - 107  12 ❌ +10 

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Results for commit 11c01ca. ± Comparison against base commit 32de245.

This pull request removes 20 and adds 15 tests. Note that renamed tests count towards both.

distributed.protocol.tests.test_arrow
distributed.protocol.tests.test_collection
distributed.protocol.tests.test_highlevelgraph
distributed.protocol.tests.test_numpy
distributed.protocol.tests.test_pandas
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_graph
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_merge
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_merge_column_and_index
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_metrics
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_rechunk
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distributed.diagnostics.tests.test_scheduler_plugin ‑ test_log_event_plugin_multiple_topics
distributed.http.scheduler.tests.test_scheduler_http ‑ test_prometheus_collect_task_groups
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_rechunk ‑ test_partial_rechunk_taskgroups
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_shuffle ‑ test_error_receive[P2PConsistencyError]
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_shuffle ‑ test_error_receive[ValueError]
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_shuffle ‑ test_restarting_does_not_log_p2p_failed
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_shuffle ‑ test_split_by_partition[False]
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_shuffle ‑ test_split_by_partition[True]
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_shuffle ‑ test_split_by_worker_empty
distributed.shuffle.tests.test_shuffle ‑ test_split_by_worker_many_workers
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This pull request skips 1 test.

distributed.tests.test_nanny ‑ test_no_unnecessary_imports_on_worker[pandas]

♻️ This comment has been updated with latest results.

[hendrikmakait]

@jacobtomlinson: Sorry for the late review, is this still up-to-date?

[hendrikmakait]

I suspect we need this as well? dask/dask#11138

[jacobtomlinson]

Thanks @hendrikmakait. I've updated with the latest changes.

[hendrikmakait]

Thanks, @jacobtomlinson