feat: automate publishing releases to Bazel Central Registry (#16014)

Note, recent releases on the BCR have a patch set applied, and it seems these patches are developed independently to "fix" each protobuf release, rather than make changes to protobuf repo.

The effect of this PR will be to create a *broken* publish to BCR for each protobuf release. At least this red PR on BCR will be our indication that the patches need to be manually replayed there.

In parallel, starting with #16013 I'll apply as many of those patches to the protobuf repo as possible. That will reduce the manual effort for each release.

Replaces #14565 which originated from my fork so the tests wouldn't run.

Closes #16014

COPYBARA_INTEGRATE_REVIEW=#16014 from protocolbuffers:bcr e17d9c8
PiperOrigin-RevId: 615026796

.bcr/README.md

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+# Bazel Central Registry
+
+When protobuf is released, we want it to be published to the Bazel Central
+Registry automatically: <https://registry.bazel.build>
+
+This folder contains configuration files to automate the publish step. See
+<https://github.com/bazel-contrib/publish-to-bcr/blob/main/templates/README.md>
+for authoritative documentation about these files.

.bcr/metadata.template.json

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+{
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf",
+  "maintainers": [
+    {
+      "email": "sandyzhang@google.com",
+      "github": "zhangskz",
+      "name": "Sandy Zhang"
+    },
+    {
+      "email": "mkruskal@google.com",
+      "github": "mkruskal-google",
+      "name": "Mike Kruskal"
+    },
+    {
+      "email": "gberg@google.com",
+      "github": "googleberg",
+      "name": "Jerry Berg"
+    }
+  ],
+  "repository": ["github:protocolbuffers/protobuf"],
+  "versions": [],
+  "yanked_versions": {}
+}

.bcr/presubmit.yml

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+matrix:
+  platform: ["debian10", "macos", "ubuntu2004", "windows"]
+
+tasks:
+  verify_targets:
+    name: "Verify build targets"
+    platform: ${{ platform }}
+    build_targets:
+    - '@protobuf//:protobuf'
+    - '@protobuf//:protobuf_lite'
+    - '@protobuf//:protoc'
+    - '@protobuf//:test_messages_proto2_cc_proto'
+    - '@protobuf//:test_messages_proto3_cc_proto'
+
+bcr_test_module:
+  module_path: "examples"
+  matrix:
+
+    platform: ["debian10", "macos", "ubuntu2004", "windows"]
+  tasks:
+    run_test_module:
+      name: "Run test module"
+      platform: ${{ platform }}
+      build_targets:
+      - "//..."

.bcr/source.template.json

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+{
+  "integrity": "**leave this alone**",
+  "strip_prefix": "{REPO}-{VERSION}",
+  "url": "https://github.com/{OWNER}/{REPO}/releases/download/{TAG}/{REPO}-{VERSION}.zip"
+}