Automate the release Editions

[m-linner-ericsson]

Description

The release-process.md describes the manual steps for creating a GitHub release. This release process already contains special cases to handle, and those can lead to mistakes.

We might not have the possibility to automate all the steps, but we should strive to automate as many as we can.

Motivation

Having to follow steps at release can introduce the change of mistakes. We should remove the chances of this by automating the release process.

Exemplification

https://www.sipios.com/blog-tech/tips-for-creating-stunning-software-releases-automatically contains examples for automating the release process.

Benefits

• Fewer mistakes during the release process
• Enables a more complex release process e.g., performing post-release tasks
• Possibility to remove special cases that we have in the release process today

Possible Drawbacks

None that I can think of