General improvements for CI and project versioning

[gruberdev]

PR Changelog:

• I have updated and fixed the poetry.lock file for compatibility with newer versions of poetry. Additionally, the lock version has been upgraded to 2.0.0.
• My changes were locally tested using the Act-cli tool. I've also modified the Makefile to detect if Act-cli is available on your $PATH, which will enable you to run the make test-local command from the root folder of the project.
• I've replaced abatilo/actions-poetry@v2 with snok/install-poetry@v1, as the latter seems to perform faster locally without caching. Furthermore, the snok/install-poetry project appears to be better maintained and more active.
• Removed some minor trailing spaces on lines.

• Github Action changes

  • Changed proposed isolates the build job by creating an additional, dependent job called release, which has steps that should only be executed when running push against the master branch.
  • I've also added an $env.ACT environment variable as one of the conditions for the release job, mainly as a way to prevent the local environment from running it.
  • The artifact feature used by GHA has limited support to environments such as the one act creates, as mentioned here, I used the solution provided by the following comment in order to fix this issue.
  • Python and Poetry have been pinned to specific recent versions (v3.11.3 and v1.5.1 respectively) that are tested and confirmed working. Wildcards were removed wherever possible. I strongly recommend using an automated dependency management tool such as Renovate.
  • As mentioned in the first item, I've included a more detailed step strategy to prevent Pull Requests code from being executed and released when running against Master branches. This is not primarily a security feature, but rather a way to prevent the unintentional usage of the action to create releases when proposing changes.
  • Python's setup version action version has been upgraded.

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I recommend local testing of this PR both in a traditional Python3 virtual environment and using the Act-cli testing tool. Any feedback is more than welcome.

[cedws]

Nice work 👍 let's give this a shot