Automate the release process and include packaging tests

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Releasing is a manual process and may not always go well.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to have releases automated, with packaging tests on the generated distribution packages that include but are not limited to:

• Are migration files included?
• Are any extraneous files included?
• Tests are not included (they currently are and it's a thorny issue to remove them)

At the present moment, this would be best implemented with GitHub Actions.