Release: migrate release process to release-it

*Authors*
- Checking and updating authors has been migrated
  to a custom script in the repo

*Changelog*
- changelogplease is no longer maintained
- generate changelog in markdown for GitHub releases
- generate changelog in HTML for blog posts
- generate contributors list in HTML for blog posts

*dist*
- clone dist repo, copy files, and commit/push
- commit tag with dist files on main branch;
  remove dist files from main branch after release

*cdn*
- clone cdn repo, copy files, and commit/push
- create versioned and unversioned copies in cdn/
- generate md5 sums and archives for Google and MSFT

*build*
- implement reproducible builds and verify release builds
  * uses the last modified date for the latest commit
  * See https://reproducible-builds.org/
- the verify workflow also ensures all files were
  properly published to the CDN and npm

*docs*
- the new release workflow is documented at build/release/README.md

*misc*
- now that we don't need the jquery-release script and
  now that we no longer need to build on Node 10, we can
  use ESM in all files in the build folder
- move dist wrappers to "wrappers" folders for easy removal
  of all built files
- limit certain workflows to the main repo (not forks)
- version in package.json has been set to beta.1 so that
  the next release will be beta.2
- release-it added the `preReleaseBase` option and we
  now always set it to `1` in the npm script. This is
  a noop for stable releases.

Fixes jquery/jquery-release#114
Closes gh-5512

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/build/tasks/node_smoke_tests.js b/build/tasks/node_smoke_tests.js
index 7d6588648..fa0922618 100644
--- a/build/tasks/node_smoke_tests.js
+++ b/build/tasks/node_smoke_tests.js
@@ -1,17 +1,12 @@
-"use strict";
+import fs from "node:fs/promises";
+import util from "node:util";
+import { exec as nodeExec } from "node:child_process";
 
-const fs = require( "node:fs/promises" );
-const util = require( "node:util" );
-const exec = util.promisify( require( "node:child_process" ).exec );
-const verifyNodeVersion = require( "./lib/verifyNodeVersion" );
+const exec = util.promisify( nodeExec );
 
 const allowedLibraryTypes = new Set( [ "regular", "factory" ] );
 const allowedSourceTypes = new Set( [ "commonjs", "module", "dual" ] );
 
-if ( !verifyNodeVersion() ) {
-	return;
-}
-
 // Fire up all tests defined in test/node_smoke_tests/*.js in spawned sub-processes.
 // All the files under test/node_smoke_tests/*.js are supposed to exit with 0 code
 // on success or another one on failure. Spawning in sub-processes is