chore: setup changesets, move to gh actions

[emmenko]

https://github.com/atlassian/changesets

TL;DR: changesets are a replacement of lerna changelog, as they provide a more convenient way of writing changelogs incrementally. In fact, the tool is primarily built to work in monorepositories.

Additionally, using the bot and the github action, the workflow of releasing becomes almost fully automated.

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[tdeekens]

Nice. Looks familiar. Are the s3r3ts set up already 🤖

[emmenko]

Are the s3r3ts set up already

Yep

[tdeekens]

Alright. Nice. I am still feeling itchy about having lerna and changesets and yarn workspaces but when changesets maybe improves their canary release story a bit that ahould go away.

Is there a contributing doc here we should update?

[emmenko]

I am still feeling itchy about having lerna and changesets and yarn workspaces but when changesets maybe improves their canary release story a bit that ahould go away.

Yeah that part should improve. They seem to be pretty active in maintaining the project, so I hope that if we give the proper input (e.g. RFC) we can find a more permanent solution.

[emmenko]

PS: there is a WIP PR that implements a pre snapshot command, which might do what we need for the canary releases.

[emmenko]

FYI: I "removed" the integration with CircleCI, we only run on GitHub Actions now.

[jonnybel]

Perfect ✨ Thanks a lot for this!