Improving testing of release process

[tim-schilling]

I propose we allow suffixing the version number from an environment variable. This would then be utilized in our test release process to build the package with a unique version number.

The new action would run on the following events:

• A tag is pushed (same as today)
• Once a month
• A workflow_dispatch with a unique iteration value

There is more information on how this would be implemented here: https://github.com/django-commons/best-practices/blob/main/docs/releases.md

[devatbosch]

Hi @tim-schilling , I would like to work on this issue if none are working on it.
If so Could you plz hint me on the end-result/expectation to fix this issue...

[tim-schilling]

Hi @devatbosch, this is currently under discussion, so I'm not sure we'll implement anything for it.

However, if we do, I suspect the solution will be similar to https://github.com/django-commons/best-practices/blob/main/docs/releases.md#testing-releases and how that repo does it. Check the pyproject.toml file, the project's topmost __init__.py file and the test_release.yml GitHub action.