refactor: add automatic releases

Add an automatic release workflow and conventional commits. The release workflow determines the
version from the type of commits and then links each commit to a changelog entry in the appropriate
section, according to the type of the latter.

.github/workflows/github-release.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: Publish GitHub release
+run-name: Release by @${{ github.actor }}
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  publish-release:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      issues: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Generate release
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: 20
+      - run: npm ci
+      - run: npx semantic-release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          HUSKY: 0

.gitignore

@@ -9,4 +9,10 @@ pipelines/*
 .DS_Store
 
 .venv
-venv/
+venv/
+
+# Dependency directories
+node_modules/
+
+# Optional npm cache directory
+.npm

.husky/prepare-commit-msg

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+#!/bin/bash
+exec < /dev/tty && npx cz --hook || true

.releaserc.json

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+{
+    "branches": [
+        "main"
+    ],
+    "plugins": [
+        "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
+        "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
+        [
+            "@semantic-release/changelog",
+            {
+                "changelogFile": "CHANGELOG.md"
+            }
+        ],
+        [
+            "@semantic-release/git",
+            {
+                "assets": [
+                    "CHANGELOG.md"
+                ],
+                "message": "chore(release): ${nextRelease.version} [skip ci]\n\n${nextRelease.notes}"
+            }
+        ],
+        [
+            "@semantic-release/github",
+            {
+                "successComment": false,
+                "failTitle": false
+            }
+        ]
+    ],
+    "preset": "angular"
+}