We need to improve the release process

[bschaatsbergen]

Currently releases are done when PRs are merged, we should be able to stack up a few PRs and release that under a single version.

[d-costa]

Some resources that may be useful for this:

• Release Please Action - https://github.com/google-github-actions/release-please-action
• Release Please - https://github.com/googleapis/release-please

[cblkwell]

Did we make any changes to this? With the bumping of the provider, we should probably release a new major release version -- what's the process we want to use for that?

[d-costa]

Did we make any changes to this?

Not that I'm aware of.

@bschaatsbergen how were you managing the releases? Personally I've used release-please-action in other module repositories, but it requires contributors to follow conventional commits spec...