Add support to create pre-releases with a generated changelog

Backport from #271

On-behalf-of: SAP <tobias.wolf@sap.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Wolf <wolf@b1-systems.de>

Author: NotTheEvilOne

src/gardenlinux/github/release/__init__.py

@@ -8,47 +8,6 @@
 LOGGER = LoggerSetup.get_logger("gardenlinux.github.release", logging.INFO)
 
 
-def create_github_release(
-    owner: str, repo: str, tag: str, commitish: str, latest: bool, body: str
-) -> int | None:
-    token = os.environ.get("GITHUB_TOKEN")
-    if not token:
-        raise ValueError("GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable not set")
-
-    headers = {
-        "Authorization": f"token {token}",
-        "Accept": "application/vnd.github.v3+json",
-    }
-
-    data = {
-        "tag_name": tag,
-        "target_commitish": commitish,
-        "name": tag,
-        "body": body,
-        "draft": False,
-        "prerelease": False,
-        "make_latest": "true" if latest else "false",
-    }
-
-    response = requests.post(
-        f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases",
-        headers=headers,
-        data=json.dumps(data),
-        timeout=REQUESTS_TIMEOUTS,
-    )
-
-    if response.status_code == 201:
-        LOGGER.info("Release created successfully")
-        response_json = response.json()
-        return int(response_json.get("id"))  # Will raise KeyError if missing
-    else:
-        LOGGER.error("Failed to create release")
-        LOGGER.debug(response.json())
-        response.raise_for_status()
-
-    return None  # Simply to make mypy happy. should not be reached.
-
-
 def write_to_release_id_file(release_id: str | int) -> None:
     try:
         with open(RELEASE_ID_FILE, "w") as file:

src/gardenlinux/github/release/__main__.py

@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@
 from gardenlinux.logger import LoggerSetup
 
 from ..release_notes import create_github_release_notes
-from . import (
-    write_to_release_id_file,
-)
+from . import write_to_release_id_file
 from .release import Release
 
 LOGGER = LoggerSetup.get_logger("gardenlinux.github", logging.INFO)