Add GitHub Actions workflow for creating release artifacts and update…

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+name: Create Release Artifacts
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - 'v*' # Trigger on tags like v1.0, v2.0.1, etc.
+
+jobs:
+  build_and_upload_artifacts:
+    name: Build and Upload Distribution Artifacts
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read # Needed to checkout the repository
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11' # You can specify your desired Python version
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install setuptools wheel
+
+      - name: Clean dist directory
+        run: rm -rf dist
+      - name: Build distribution archives
+        run: python -m build --sdist --wheel
+
+      - name: Upload distribution artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: python-package-distributions
+          path: dist/

.gitignore

@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@ project-*.md
 .venv
 build/
 __pycache__/
-*.egg-info/
+*.egg-info/
+dist/
+uv.lock
+publish.md