Summary

Introduces a dual config setup for release-please to allow for managing and stage publishing of release candidates.

How it works

• Each conventional commit to master (or a maintenance branch like 9.x) will be processed by release-please and maintain a Release Candidate PR.
• The merge of an RC PR will trigger npm-publish for that specific RC
  • Publishing of RC can be prevented by not approving the workflow run
• Once RC PR is merged - new Release PR is created
• New conventional commits landing after RC PR merge, will create a new RC PR with incremented version
  • A new RC PR will rewrite the Release PR to RC
• Merging the Release PR triggers npm-publish - publishing the package with latest version

Replicates restify/errors#120.

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