Bugfix/task id bytes (Netflix#917)

* Ensuring we return a string object, not bytes

* encode woes

Bugfix/task id bytes (Netflix#917)

* Ensuring we return a string object, not bytes

* encode woes

Re-adds logic to send executive report to notifications group (Netfli…

…x#872)

Updating example data and making some config items optional. (Netflix…

…#857)

* Updating example data and amking some config items optional.

* Adding optional config items

Moving this from an error to warning (Netflix#767)

Fixing typo (Netflix#738)

Create codeql-analysis.yml (Netflix#710)

Adding more release steps (Netflix#679)

* Adding more release steps

* Update docs/contributing/README.md

Co-authored-by: Marc Vilanova <39573146+mvilanova@users.noreply.github.com>

* Update docs/contributing/README.md

Co-authored-by: Marc Vilanova <39573146+mvilanova@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Marc Vilanova <39573146+mvilanova@users.noreply.github.com>

Adding production docs (Netflix#658)

* Adding production docs

Fixing error message (Netflix#648)