Automatically create a release on github

[zorun]

We use zest for the release process: https://ihatemoney.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html#how-to-release

It would be nice if zest could automatically create a release on github with the changelog extract.

[almet]

We could do this with entrypoints, see https://zestreleaser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/entrypoints.html. I'm not sure it's worth it, though. I'd rather keep the process manual and not have to maintain some code for this.

[zorun]

I'm surprised that zest doesn't support this out-of-the-box.

Also, there's the question of converting the RST format from the changelog into markdown...

[almet]

We could use pandoc, but it's a big dependency.

pandoc CHANGELOG.rst -f rst -t markdown

[Glandos]

See #893 (comment)

[almet]

Everything is now using Markdown. I believe cutting a new release on Github should be as simple as hitting a specific API endpoint?

Or we could take it the other way : https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2021/02/11/automating-pypi-releases/

[almet]

Here is the API we should use

[azmeuk]

I believe you could do a lot of things with GHA, for instance release on push can create a github release based on events like pushing, it can also build release notes for github, and publish a tag on the release commit. The action can be triggered with labels on the release PR.
I have never used it though but I am curious of what it worth.

[almet]

That would indeed make our life much easier.