Auto merge of #14351 - rust-lang:pa-backport-publish, r=weihanglo

Backport publishing workflow to 1.80.0

As we're about to publish a point release including Cargo changes, backport the workflow to automatically publish to crates.io in it too. This way we can see whether it actually works.

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Publish Cargo to crates.io whenever a new tag is pushed. Tags are pushed by
+# the Rust release process (https://github.com/rust-lang/promote-release),
+# which will cause this workflow to run.
+
+name: Release
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "**"
+
+# Prevent multiple releases from starting at the same time.
+concurrency:
+  group: release
+
+jobs:
+  crates-io:
+    name: Publish on crates.io
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+
+    # Gain access to the crates.io publishing token.
+    environment:
+      name: release
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout the source code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Publish Cargo to crates.io
+        run: ./publish.py
+        env:
+          CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}

publish.py

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ import urllib.request
 from urllib.error import HTTPError
 
 
+# Whenever you add a new crate to this list that does NOT start with "cargo-"
+# you must reach out to the infra team to add the crate to the list of crates
+# allowed to be published from the "cargo CI" crates.io token.
 TO_PUBLISH = [
     'credential/cargo-credential',
     'credential/cargo-credential-libsecret',