feat: add release-please for conventional-commit based releases

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+name: release-please
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          config-file: release-please-config.json
+          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
+#      todo: add block to run rever's Authors and appimage activity on release

.release-please-manifest.json

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  ".": "0.19.0"
+}

release-please-config.json

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+    "release-type": "python",
+    "bump-minor-pre-major": true,
+    "include-v-in-tag": false,
+    "bump-patch-for-minor-pre-major": true,
+    "packages": {
+        ".": {
+        }
+    }
+}