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- changelogplease is no longer maintained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, 12 deletions

diff --git a/build/tasks/promises_aplus_tests.js b/build/tasks/promises_aplus_tests.js
index 5c3c8fbee..6f49f0230 100644
--- a/build/tasks/promises_aplus_tests.js
+++ b/build/tasks/promises_aplus_tests.js
@@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
-"use strict";
-
-const { spawn } = require( "node:child_process" );
-const verifyNodeVersion = require( "./lib/verifyNodeVersion" );
-const path = require( "node:path" );
-const os = require( "node:os" );
-
-if ( !verifyNodeVersion() ) {
-	return;
-}
+import path from "node:path";
+import os from "node:os";
+import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
 
 const command = path.resolve(
-	__dirname,
-	`../../node_modules/.bin/promises-aplus-tests${ os.platform() === "win32" ? ".cmd" : "" }`
+	`node_modules/.bin/promises-aplus-tests${ os.platform() === "win32" ? ".cmd" : "" }`
 );
 const args = [ "--reporter", "dot", "--timeout", "2000" ];
 const tests = [