Currently we manually create releases and any package that is not marked -dev in its VERSION file gets published

This creates a lot of unwanted commits, and boilerplate tasks that are pretty annoying and potentially unnecessary.

One possible solution is to make it such that:

• When a PR lands on main if the -dev version has changed for one or more packages...
• CI creates a branch for a new release, updates the VERSION files and publishes the packages to the version indicated by the previous dev version/s