These scripts are used to release Quarkus, the framework for Supersonic Subatomic Java.
These scripts shouldn't be used locally and releases should be done by creating an issue here so that the automatic release workflow orchestrates the scripts.
These scripts are the ones orchestrated by the automatic release workflow though so they are indeed still used to release Quarkus.
We also make sure that we can still release manually if need be, even if it is strongly discouraged.