ci: add automatic release and provenance generation

Signed-off-by: behnazh-w <behnaz.hassanshahi@oracle.com>

.github/workflows/release.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+name: Release
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: read
+      attestations: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+
+    steps:
+
+    - name: Check out repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332 # v4.1.7
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+
+    - name: Set up Apache Maven Central
+      uses: actions/setup-java@99b8673ff64fbf99d8d325f52d9a5bdedb8483e9 # v4.2.1
+      with: # Running setup-java again overwrites the settings.xml
+        distribution: temurin
+        java-version: '17'
+        server-id: maven-central # Value of the distributionManagement/repository/id field of the pom.xml
+        server-username: MAVEN_USERNAME # env variable for username in deploy
+        server-password: MAVEN_CENTRAL_TOKEN # env variable for token in deploy
+        gpg-private-key: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }} # Value of the GPG private key to import
+        gpg-passphrase: MAVEN_GPG_PASSPHRASE # env variable for GPG private key passphrase
+
+    - name: Publish to Apache Maven Central
+      run: mvn javadoc:jar source:jar deploy
+      env:
+        MAVEN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_USERNAME }}
+        MAVEN_CENTRAL_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_CENTRAL_TOKEN }}
+        MAVEN_GPG_PASSPHRASE: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_GPG_PASSPHRASE }}
+
+    # Build provenance
+    - name: Attest Build Provenance
+      uses: actions/attest-build-provenance@bdd51370e0416ac948727f861e03c2f05d32d78e # v1.3.2
+      with:
+        subject-path: ./*/target/*.jar

pom.xml

@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@
     <artifactId>tribuo</artifactId>
     <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+  <distributionManagement>
+    <repository>
+      <id>maven-central</id>
+      <url>https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/</url>
+    </repository>
+  </distributionManagement>
+
     <modules>
         <module>Core</module>
         <module>Data</module>