How to improve the developer experience in Heptapod/GitLab

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Practical examples of automating developer workflows in Heptapod (a GitLab fork with Mercurial) to manage a multi-repository Python project (CubicWeb and its cubes). Covers tools and approaches for auto-creating merge requests across repos (e.g., for deprecations), automated reviewer selection, automated release steps (commit, tag, changelog, publish to PyPI), shared GitLab CI templates, hosting Docker images on the forge, and keeping static sites/docs/web apps up to date.

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