Task: Consolidate release and release-drafter workflows

[nlebovits]

Describe the task

We currently have two separate GitHub Actions workflows: release and release-drafter. The goal is to consolidate them into a single workflow that automates the release process. This workflow should handle the following:

• Publish release notes.
• Manage semantic versioning.
• Trigger whenever we merge the staging branch into main.
• Provide an option to manually trigger the workflow.

Note: The existing release workflow is not functioning properly at the moment and should not be used as a model.

Acceptance Criteria

• Create a single consolidated workflow that includes functionality from both release and release-drafter.
• The workflow should publish release notes with a clear changelog based on PRs merged into main.
• Implement semantic versioning that automatically increments the version based on PR labels (e.g., fix, feat, breaking).
• Ensure the workflow triggers automatically when merging staging into main.
• Add the ability to manually trigger the workflow via the GitHub Actions interface.
• Validate the new workflow operates correctly and replace the old workflows.

Additional context

• Review the current release and release-drafter workflows to identify overlapping and unique functionality, but note that release is not working properly and may require significant adjustments.
• Consider using tools like semantic-release or actions/github-script for managing versioning and release notes.
• Ensure backward compatibility with our current release process.
• Refer to GitHub's release documentation for guidance on best practices.
• The PR should clean up and deprecate the old workflows once the new one is verified to work.

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