Release workflow improvements

[theetrain]

Introducing some semi-automatic release tooling:

• remove husky
• add linting to PR pipelines
• add release guide to contributing.md, and table of contents
• add yarn release semi-automatic script, leveraging the standard-version package
• Lint and fix neglected files. I assume their line endings were incorrect

How to test:

1. Check guide in CONTRIBUTING.md
2. Run yarn release. This won't create a commit nor tag; those steps are manual. Note the generated changelog, package.json version bump, and documentation version bump

Next steps: once we're comfortable with these tools, we'll set up continuous delivery.

[metonym]

Thanks for setting this up.

Tested locally and works as expected. This LGTM pending a couple of comments.

[theetrain]

Thank you; all comments were addressed.

[metonym]

This is great, especially moving the lint to CI since it caused trouble for some users when they tried contributing. Anything to make the contributing flow better and the release flow automated is a big win.

[freezernick]

Actually standard-version is deprecated and the recommended successor is https://github.com/absolute-version/commit-and-tag-version

The only changes required are to replace every standard-version with commit-and-tag-version ( and update the dependencies )