cd: create GH Actions workflow to prepare release on dispatch

[felix-seifert]

With this PR, we step closer towards automating our release. I introduce the workflow prepare-release, which automates the steps which had to be performed locally before.

The workflow can be triggered as a workflow_dispatch together with selecting whether it is a PATCH, MINOR or MAJOR release. When triggered, it computes the necessary versions via the maven-version-determiner.py and calls mvn release:prepare with these versions.

As the Maven release plugin pushes commits during its prepare step, the action also tries to push to GitHub. To enable these pushes via the SSH connection, I use the foreign Action webfactory/ssh-agent. For this action, I generated an SSH keypair which I set as a deploy key and a secret.

The idea is that the workflow release picks up the new commits and publishes the build of the tagged commit as a new release on Maven Central.

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[sarlam]

Looks neat