[ci] Add auto to manage versions, changelog, and deployment to NPM

[hydrosquall]

Motivation

• Extension to Quality of Life updates to repo #47 : reduce maintainer time spent on repetitive tasks so we can focus energy on features (time to generate changelogs, bump/version/publish) for data-explorer
  • Inspired by having a good DX when using this library in Storybook: Initial plugin registration + set up automation hydrosquall/storybook-addon-datadog-rum#1

Changes

• Configures the auto release/versioning tool according to the getting started guide
• Enabled the following plugins using the .autorc.json file
  • Thank 1st time contributors in the changelog: docs
  • Will parse conventional-commits formatted commits, same as other nteract repositories (chore: add support for semantic release in repo nteract#5565 ). docs. Follow-up work could involve tooling for helping to lint or author commit messages.
  • After a PR's changes are included in a published release, leave a comment on the original PR so authors can see which release their change was included in. docs
• Created an initial Github release to bootstrap the Auto process: https://github.com/nteract/data-explorer/releases/tag/v8.2.8

Testing

• This won't publish anything to NPM unless we use the release tag due to the onlyPublishWithReleaseLabel condition in our configuration. We also need the NPM_TOKEN secret added to the repository's secrets ( https://github.com/nteract/data-explorer/settings/secrets/actions )
  • I suggest we switch this option to true after we validate that publishing works as expected with explicit publishing (so that we don't release 8.3 (Prepare 8.3.0 release #49 ) earlier than intended).

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🚀 PR was released in v8.2.10 🚀