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Implement a GitHub Actions workflow in `.github/workflows/nightlies.yml` named *Nightlies*, which is scheduled to run once daily at 00:00 UTC. At present the workflow includes one job named *release*, which is responsible for publishing prerelease GitHub releases and NPM packages. Each prerelease created (per package) will have a `nightly` [semver identifier][preid], and each successive nightly release will be paired with the `nightly` [dist-tag][dist-tag] on the NPM registry (per package). During the release job, actions taken in this GitHub repository (commits, tags, releases) and on the NPM registry (package publication) will be performed using credentials associated with the following accounts: * https://github.com/embarkbot * https://www.npmjs.com/~embarkbot For that purpose, corresponding [secrets][secrets] (link requires admin access) were created in this repository consisting of API tokens generated for the @embarkbot GitHub and NPM accounts. Logins for the @embarkbot accounts themselves are protected by 2FA. Implement `scripts/nightly-release.js` (`npm run release:nightly`), which is responsible for running `lerna publish` in the GitHub Actions workflow. Also implement `scripts/stable-release.js` (`npm run release:stable`), which is intended to be run locally by someone on the Embark Team. Both scripts borrow heavily from the existing `scripts/release.js`, and the process of authoring and experimenting with them influenced refactors to the latter. Use a `--force-publish` major-release strategy to prevent major-version drift between packages in the monorepo. How it works: when the stable-release script is run (`npm run release:stable`), if the current prerelease version involves a major version increase relative to the most recent stable release then **all** packages are bumped to the new major stable version. Otherwise, only the packages currently in prerelease are graduated to the new minor/patch stable version. In either case, the `nightly` dist-tag of each package published is updated to resolve to the new stable version. The reason for adopting this strategy *(a decision which can be revisited and changed any time in the future)* is based on a concern that downstream users would have a confusing developer UX if across `embark-*` packages there are differing major versions. To understand how the major-version drift would happen, consider the following hypothetical scenario where `--force-publish` *isn't* used in stable releases and `nightly` dist-tags aren't updated to resolve to the latest stable version: assume the current stable version is `6.5.4`. A breaking change lands for `embark-core`. The next nightly release bumps `embark-core` and about 40 other packages to `7.0.0-nightly.0`. However, `embark-utils` (and others) isn't bumped because it doesn't depend on `embark-core`. Later, without any intervening changes to `embark-utils`, the prerelease is graduated so that `embark-core`, etc. bump to `7.0.0`. So then some `embark-*` packages are at major version `7` while others are still at `6`. *Note* that this is the case even though this monorepo uses Lerna's *"fixed"* versioning mode. Inside the monorepo, `lerna` makes sure that everything is okay, i.e. with respect to automatically updating dependents' version specifiers for their dependencies that are within the monorepo. But for downstream users things are a bit more complex. If someone wanted to use `embark-utils` on its own and specified `^7.0.0` as the version range (after observing that `embark` itself is in a `7.x` series) it won't work because `embark-utils` is still in `6.x`. In the general case, users may have to manually cross-check major versions of various `embark-*` packages that they specify in their projects' `package.json` files. There are tools like [npm-check-updates][ncu] that can make the task easier, but there is still likely to be some confusion, especially given the large and growing number of packages in this monorepo. Another area of confusion would exist around the `nightly` dist-tag. In the scenario above, `embark-core@nightly` (and/or `@nightly` of its dependents, e.g. `embark`) would resolve to `7.0.0-nightly.0` but `embark-utils@nightly` would resolve to some `6.5.4-nightly.N` (💣), i.e. a prerelease version that predates the current stable `6.5.4` release of `embark-utils` (and *might* not include all changes that landed in `embark-utils` prior to that stable release). By bumping all packages each time there is a major stable release, and by having the `nightly` dist-tag always point to a package's most recent release (whether stable or prerelease), the problems described above are avoided. To see the `--force-publish` major-release strategy in action take a look at the [commit history][history] for the [nightly-release-workflow-tester][mb-nrwt] repo together with the *Versions* tab of the NPM pages for the [foo][foo], [bar][bar], [baz][baz], and [quux][quux] packages. Ignore the version history for `<= 2.0.1` because those pre/releases were made with a different strategy than the current one. Refactor the existing `scripts/release.js` to make it more flexible generally and with respect to options that can be forwarded to `lerna`. In particular, it's now possible to run `lerna version` instead of `lerna publish` (the default behavior) by using the `--version-only` cli option; when combining that usage with `--skip-qa` and `--no-push` it's possible to conveniently and quickly experiment with the [`bump` positional][bump] and additional options such as `--force-publish`, `--conventional-prerelease`, and `--conventional-graduate`, i.e. to better understand how `lerna` will update package versions. That ability should make it much simpler to figure out the best course of action to take locally (manually) when a nightly release completely or partially failed (which could happen for a number of reasons), as well for other scenarios such as making a minor/patch release in a previous line of major releases, or when making two/more successive stable releases without a nightly release having happened in the meantime. An important change to `scripts/release.js` is that by default it makes use of the `--create-release github` option for `lerna version|publish`. For that to work, an environment variable named `GH_TOKEN` must be defined with a properly [scoped][scopes] GitHub [personal access token][pa-token] (`public_repo` scope is sufficient for creating releases). The same is true for `scripts/stable-release.js`. Delete the `.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE` directory and the templates it contained. Unlike for GitHub issue creation, there is no prompt-page for picking from a repo's PR templates; to use a PR template a `template=[name]` [query parameter][template-query] must be appended to the URL of the PR creation page. So the PR templates ended up unused by the Embark Team and external contributors because it's not convenient to use them. Restore the default PR template we had in place some time ago (with some small revisions) since it seems like a helpful starting point, especially for external contributors. Consistently use all-lowercase filenames for ISSUE/PR templates. [preid]: https://semver.org/#spec-item-9 [dist-tag]: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/dist-tag [secrets]: https://github.com/embarklabs/embark/settings/secrets [ncu]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check-updates [history]: https://github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/nightly-release-workflow-tester/commits/master [mb-nrwt]: https://github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/nightly-release-workflow-tester/ [foo]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nightly-release-workflow-tester-foo?activeTab=versions [bar]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nightly-release-workflow-tester-bar?activeTab=versions [baz]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nightly-release-workflow-tester-baz?activeTab=versions [quux]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nightly-release-workflow-tester-quux?activeTab=versions [bump]: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/tree/master/commands/version#semver-bump [scopes]: https://developer.github.com/apps/building-oauth-apps/understanding-scopes-for-oauth-apps/ [pa-token]: https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line [template-query]: https://help.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/creating-a-pull-request-template-for-your-repository |
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