Refactor, guardrail, cleanup

[navidpadid]

This pull request introduces a comprehensive release automation system for the ProcLens project, focusing on cross-architecture packaging and improved documentation of project structure and standards. The most significant changes are the addition of robust release scripts for versioning, artifact bundling, and installation, as well as a major overhaul of the Copilot instructions to reflect the current architecture, workflows, and coding standards.

Release Automation and Packaging:

• Modularized scripts to automate version calculation, tag creation, cross-architecture binary builds, and packaging of release artifacts:
  • .github/scripts/release/calculate-new-version.sh: Determines the next semantic version based on release type.
  • .github/scripts/release/create-and-push-tag.sh: Creates and pushes annotated tags for releases, skipping if the tag already exists.
  • .github/scripts/release/build-target-binaries.sh: Builds kernel module and userspace binaries for a specified architecture and kernel version, placing outputs in architecture-specific directories.
  • .github/scripts/release/create-bundle-package.sh: Packages cross-architecture binaries, generates install/uninstall scripts, a quickstart guide, and produces a tarball with checksum for distribution.

Documentation and Standards:

• Major rewrite of .github/copilot-instructions.md to provide:
  • An up-to-date overview of the hybrid kernel/userspace architecture and key files.
  • Detailed coding standards, formatting, and interoperability guidance for kernel and userspace code, emphasizing checkpatch and clang-format interplay.
  • Clear build, test, and release workflows, including QEMU-based testing and manual enforcement requirements for kernel code quality.
  • Explicit do/don’t lists, common pitfalls, and references to project and kernel documentation.

Formatting Configuration:

• Increased the ColumnLimit to 100 and set BreakStringLiterals: false in .clang-format to align with the project's kernel coding style and reduce checkpatch conflicts.