build: drop release-it

[abmusse]

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[kadler]

If we were to add a .npmrc to git, I think we could simplify the instructions:

preid=rc
tag-version-prefix=
message=chore: release %s

When creating the RC, determine whether the next version will bump the major, minor, or patch and run the appropriate pre-version, eg. npm version preminor. Then for further RCs, npm version prerelease. Finally npm version release to go from RC to final.

The tag-version-prefix and message values then keeps the autogenerated tag names and git commit messages consistent with our previous convention. (The default is just to commit the version and the tag name is prefixed with "v").

[kadler]

Suggested change

	git push origin main
	git push origin v$(node -p "require('./package.json').version")
	git push origin main v$(node -p "require('./package.json').version")

This can be done in one command.

[kadler]

Also, git describe --tags --abbrev=0 will give the latest tag so you don't need to prefix the version or call node at all.

git push origin main $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)

[kadler]

Oh, looks like here we want the v prefix on the tag name. I was looking at idb-connector convention.

[kadler]

Might be worth adding sign-git-tag=true to the npmrc to require signed tags. We have tended to make lightweight tags in the past, but might be good to switch to signed ones.