* Refactor mobilegaming groovy scripts

* Add retry policy

* Update release branch cut to still update container version to 2.XX.0

* Update a few more spots

* Update mobile gaming groovy scripts

* Add retry

* Remove Python 3.8 Support from Apache Beam

* Remove artifact build/publishing

* Address comments

* Update Go version used by Beam repo.

* update release docker in docker container

* update CHANGES.md with this note

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* [WIP] Remove Python 3.8 targets from Actions

* revert changes to 3.9 build.gradle

* More gradle cleanup

* Add posargs

* Update local-env-setup.sh

* Fix default env python version

* More places to update python version refs

* mypy/linting fixes

* yapf

* Update other locations

* update more files

* update standard_external_transforms.yaml

* update test case that fails on 3.8 -> 3.9

Update Playground and other location usage of Go to use latest released version by default. (#32444)

* Update Python artifact name in release process

* Change version references to 2.XX.0

Bumps commons-cli:commons-cli from 1.6.0 to 1.8.0.

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: commons-cli:commons-cli
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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This reverts commit 557b5bad.

Co-authored-by: Rodrigo Bozzolo <rbozzolo@indeed.com>

* Upgrade Debian Bullseye to Bookworm

* Keep Playground images unchanged

* Shutdown most of Jenkins PostCommit

* Remove mass comment related steps in release guide and actions

* Add missing checkout and revert java artifact type changes

* Fix variables

* Install dateutil

* Fix yaml

* Install requests

* Add option to skip confirmation

* Skip confirmation

* Checkout workflow branch

* Fetch tags

* Fetch tags

* Fix arg

* Fix repo url

* Skip another prompt

* Fix variable + debug

* Fix svn auth

Bumps commons-cli:commons-cli from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0.

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: commons-cli:commons-cli
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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* Add 'release/trigger_all_tests.json' to trigger path of mass comment PR

* Create GItHub Action PreCommit

* Create missing Google-ads IO PreCommit

* Create missing RequestResponse IO PreCommit

* fix leftover

* Fix leftover in phrase

* Update contributor-docs/release-guide.md

Co-authored-by: Danny McCormick <dannymccormick@google.com>

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* Add pyproject.toml

Update numpy bounds

* Use subprocess to run grpcio since it is not imported in pyproject.toml

Update setup.py

Remove ImportError from gen_protos.py

Update subprocess run and raise RuntimeError if proto generation fails

Print output of setup.py
Fix linting issues

* Remove build-requirements.txt and use build to build the sdist
Modify buildPython task

* Use wheels to run tox precommit tests

Upgrade pip in Dockerfile

Move _ELEMENTS to shared file. tests are not importable by each other


Add missing element

Remove shared_test_variables

Remove installing wheel in a test suite


Retry run_tox.sh with no installPkg flag

Remove natural language test. codepath is covered in the postCommits.

Add back tox exit code

* Remove cython tests. default tests will run with Cython extensions

FIx toxTask name

Add no-extra test suite to precommit and remove GH duplicate ubuntu test

Skip failing non-cython test

Fix tox test name

* Force type cast inputs to list

* Update stager to use build. If it fails, use legacy setup to build sdist

Fix mypy issue

* Remove cython env and build-requirements for tox.ini

* Update publish_docker_images.sh to retag multi-arch image

* add --tag

* Revert some changes

* Try to avoid pulling

* Revert changes

* change source for second command

* Adjust comment typo