Port Create Release fixes from Stable to main (#45063)

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/45063

While doing the release of 0.75, we have to fix the Create Release action a few times to get it right.
This change contains the fixes from
* https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/e36b46f0c970dc3f1f5b5058a8d10834acdb2667
* https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/1b891357b2f1995f2344cc991be423ca66fa6770
* https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/56e1c8bfdd57600e79c0b17de1d2fd933d20b8f9
* https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/03591318fbabdc0c06808316f471cc361b53c57f
* https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/528097709aeef434b0d85565bfd89a4a9ff5644e
* https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f4b1dd1fa11374cae8a696833ad9ded0767cba8f

## Changelog
[Internal] - Backport changes to Create Release github action

Reviewed By: cortinico

Differential Revision: D58782391

fbshipit-source-id: b68088fb8c4290efcb4599d1b090b18e401e4b66

.github/actions/create-release/action.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,27 @@
 name: create_release
 description: Creates a new React Native release
+inputs:
+  version:
+    description: 'The version of React Native we want to release. For example 0.75.0-rc.0'
+    required: true
+  is_latest_on_npm:
+    description: 'Whether we want to tag this release as latest on NPM'
+    required: true
+    default: "false"
+  dry_run:
+    description: 'Whether the job should be executed in dry-run mode or not'
+    default: "true"
 runs:
   using: composite
   steps:
     - name: Yarn install
       shell: bash
       run: yarn install --non-interactive
+    - name: Configure Git
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        git config --local user.email "bot@reactnative.dev"
+        git config --local user.name "React Native Bot"
     - name: Creating release commit
       shell: bash
       run: |
@@ -23,7 +39,7 @@ runs:
         git tag -a "latest" -m "latest"
     - name: Pushing release commit
       shell: bash
-      if: ${{ inputs.dry_run == false }}
+      if: ${{ inputs.dry_run == 'false' }}
       run: |
         CURR_BRANCH="$(git branch --show-current)"
         git push origin "$CURR_BRANCH" --follow-tags

.github/workflows/create-release.yml

@@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ on:
         default: false
 
 jobs:
-  prepare_release:
+  create_release:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.1
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.REACT_NATIVE_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       - name: Check if on stable branch
         id: check_stable_branch
         run: |
@@ -46,3 +48,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Execute Prepare Release
         if: ${{ steps.check_stable_branch.outputs.ON_STABLE_BRANCH && !steps.check_if_tag_exists.outputs.TAG_EXISTS }}
         uses: ./.github/actions/create-release
+        with:
+            version: ${{ inputs.version }}
+            is_latest_on_npm: ${{ inputs.is_latest_on_npm }}
+            dry_run: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}