DRAFT: create a GitHub release

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: GitHub
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+#on:
+#  push:
+#    tags: ["*"]
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+    name: Create a Release
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Extract the change log from CHANGES.(rst|md)
+        id: changelog
+        run: |
+          # get the lines where the changelog for the last release starts and finishes
+          first_line=$(grep -n "\-\-\-\-" CHANGES.rst | cut -d":" -f1 |head -n1)
+          last_line=$(grep -n "\-\-\-\-" CHANGES.rst | cut -d":" -f1 |head -n2 | tail -n1)
+          # do some math to adjust the line numbers
+          first=$((${first_line}+1))
+          last=$((${last_line}-2))
+          end=$((${last_line}-1))
+          # extract the changelog
+          output=$(sed -n "${first},${last}p;${end}q" CHANGES.rst)
+
+          # GITHUB_OUTPUT needs a delimiter for multi line strings
+          delimiter="$(openssl rand -hex 8)"
+          echo "log<<${delimiter}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+          echo "${output}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+          echo "${delimiter}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+      - name: debug
+        run: echo '{"tag_name":"${{ github.ref_name }}","name":"${{ github.ref_name }}","body":"${{ steps.changelog.outputs.log }}"}'
+#      - name: Create a new GitHub release
+#        run: |
+#          curl -L \
+#          -X POST \
+#          --header "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
+#          --header 'authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}' \
+#          --header "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
+#          https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/releases \
+#          -d '{"tag_name":"${{ github.ref_name }}","name":"${{ github.ref_name }}","body":"${{ steps.changelog.outputs.log }}"}'
+