Add check-project-version and update-project-version actions

[bkeryan]

What does this Pull Request accomplish?

Add the check-project-version action, which uses poetry version to get the project version and checks it against the GitHub release tag or a provided input.

Add the update-project-version action, which uses poetry version to bump the project version and then creates a pull request.

Update the version tags in README.md to @v0.2:

• The next release of the action will be v0.2.0 because it adds new functionality in a backwards compatible manner.
• Remove the patch/update version from the examples.

Add a table of contents to README.md, generated with the Markdown All In One VS Code extension.

Add PR/CI workflows which test the actions.

Why should this Pull Request be merged?

Enable automatic version bumps without pushing to main.

In https://github.com/ni/measurement-plugin-python we have been using a workflow that sets the version in pyproject.toml based on the release tag and uses https://github.com/casperwa/push-protected to push the version updates to main. We haven't been happy with this approach because the release tag/archive contain files with the wrong version number ( ni/measurement-plugin-python#162 ), and because failures during publishing tend to leave branch protections disabled.

What testing has been done?

• Manually tested update_version.py script
• Tested with environment=none:
  • nitypes-python (1 package): https://github.com/ni/nitypes-python/actions/runs/15173323807 chore: Update project version - users/bkeryan/update-project-version-action nitypes-python#64
  • measurement-plugin-python (3 packages): https://github.com/ni/measurement-plugin-python/actions/runs/15173293966 chore: Update project version - users/bkeryan/update-project-version-action measurement-plugin-python#1139
• Tested publishing a release in a personal fork of the nitypes-python repo:
  • https://github.com/bkeryan/nitypes-python/actions/runs/15429434579
  • chore: Update project version - testpypi bkeryan/nitypes-python#1
• Ran new PR/CI test workflow.

[bkeryan]

update_version.py testing:

PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py major --dev
Bumping version from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0
Bumping version from 2.0.0 to 2.0.0.dev0
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py major --dev
Bumping version from 2.0.0.dev0 to 2.0.0.dev1
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py major --dev
Bumping version from 2.0.0.dev1 to 2.0.0.dev2
<edit file manually>
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py minor --dev
Bumping version from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0
Bumping version from 2.1.0 to 2.1.0.dev0
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py minor --dev
Bumping version from 2.1.0.dev0 to 2.1.0.dev1
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py minor --dev
Bumping version from 2.1.0.dev1 to 2.1.0.dev2
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py minor --dev
Bumping version from 2.1.0.dev2 to 2.1.0.dev3
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py minor --dev
Bumping version from 2.1.0.dev3 to 2.1.0.dev4
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py minor
Bumping version from 2.1.0.dev4 to 2.1.0
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py patch --dev
Bumping version from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1
Bumping version from 2.1.1 to 2.1.1.dev0
PS C:\dev\nitypes-python> python C:\dev\python-actions\update-project-version\update_version.py patch --dev
Bumping version from 2.1.1.dev0 to 2.1.1.dev1

[bkeryan]

The project version error looks like this:

[bkeryan]

The project version error looks like this:

also, on the summary page: https://github.com/ni/nitypes-python/actions/runs/15192239280