Merge pull request #17 from idaholab/release-please-action

Added Release-Please action

.github/workflows/release-please-action.yml

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+name: Build and Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:        
+  build-release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+
+      - name: Checkout git repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: release-please
+        id: release 
+        uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_SECRET }}
+          release-type: simple
+          target-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+
+      - name: Print release outputs for debugging
+        run: |
+          echo "Release outputs:"
+          echo "releases_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}"
+          echo "major: ${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}"
+          echo "minor: ${{ steps.release.outputs.minor }}"      
+
+      - name: tag major and minor versions
+        if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created == 'true' }}
+        run: |
+          git config user.name github-actions[bot]
+          git config user.email 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
+          #git remote add gh-token "https://${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}@github.com/googleapis/release-please-action.git"
+          git tag -d v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }} || true
+          git tag -d v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.minor }} || true
+          git push origin :v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }} || true
+          git push origin :v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.minor }} || true
+          git tag -a v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }} -m "Release v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}"
+          git tag -a v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.minor }} -m "Release v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.minor }}"
+          git push origin v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}
+          git push origin v${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.minor }}