Add CI/CD pipeline

Need to add CI/CD pipeline for automated build and deploy. The general setup noctua uses will suffice initially.

This should follow the outline in #20. Dev releases should happen on any push to main. Prod releases happen when a tag is applied to main. The prod branch should be automatically fast-forwarded to the current main commit when a tag is applied for user convenience

changed milestone to %Distributable Package With Basic Functionality

assigned to @mdefende

marked this issue as related to #20

Noctua currently uses setuptools and a third party setuptools-scm extension to automatically tag dev and prod releases. For this project, I experimented with another popular package management tool, poetry to compare and contrast. In all, poetry is fairly similar to setuptools in how the pyproject.toml file is organized, but it provides a few extra options to make life a little easier.

First, it includes dynamic versioning capabilities out of the box, and the customization on how the version name is created is more detailed than in setuptools-scm. It also allowed me to set up an extra source to install dependencies from since all of the cudf packages are only available via conda or the nvidia pypi server. This isn't actually helpful immediately for reasons I'll explain below. I overall like it a bit better but still had some issues.

Neither setuptools nor poetry can install packages from conda sources. This is meaningful in our case since the current versions of cudf on nvidia's pypi registry cannot be compiled correctly on Cheaha due to it still running RHEL7. Luckily, the conda source works without issue. However, this means anyone wanting to install this package will need to first install some of the cudf packages from conda first. This will be added to the documentation for the install steps

added #41 (closed) as child task

mentioned in merge request !26 (merged)

added #42 (closed) as child task

CI/CD was added in !26 (merged). Poetry is being used for the build backend while conda is used to install dependencies. Instructions were added on the proper steps for installing the package and dependencies

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