Creates a tool for staging and publishing releases as per the
new branching and versioning that has been outlined in the following
document. The tool is intended to be used across the organization to
ensure consistent branching/versioning and labeling:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/197kVillDwx-RZtSVOBtPb4BBIAw0E9RT3q3v6DZkykU/edit#heading=h.s3qlps8f4zq7dd
The tool implements the actions as outlined in the following
initial plan: https://hackmd.io/2Le8leq0S6G_R5VEVTNK9A.
The implementation slightly diverged in so far that it performs
staging and publishing together so that releasing is a single
convenient command. In case of errors for which re-running the
full command is not sufficient, we want to consider adding
recover functionality. e.g. when the staging completed, but the
actual NPM publishing aborted unexpectedly due to build errors.
PR Close#38656
Introduces a new command for `ng-dev release`, so that the NPM
dist tag can be set for all configured NPM packages. This command
can be useful in case a manual tag needs to be set, but it is
primarily used by the release tooling when a new stable version
is cut, and when the previous patch branch needs to be set as LTS
version through a `v{major}-lts` dist tag.
It is necessary to have this as a command so that the release tool
can execute it for old branches where other packages might have been
configured. This is similar to the separate `ng-dev build` command
that we created.
Note that we also added logic for spawning a process conveniently
with different "console output" modes. This will be useful for
other command invocations in the release tool and it's generally
better than directly using native `child_process` as that one doesn't
log to the dev-infra debug log file.
PR Close#38656
Adds a method for printing active release trains for a configured
project. This is helpful for the release tool that will print
the active release trains. Also this can be useful for the
caretaker status command, where we could print the active
version branches (i.e. "is there currently a feature-freeze branch").
PR Close#38656
Adds logic for determining active LTS branches for a given
release configuration. The active LTS branches can be determined
by querying NPM and matching dist tags against a specific
pattern. i.e. `v{major}-lts`.
This logic will be useful for the release tool that supports
publishing of active LTS version branches.
PR Close#38656
We initially added logic for determining active release trains into
the merge script. Given we now build more tools that rely on this
information, we move the logic into a more general "versioning" folder
that can contain common logic following the versioning document for the
Angular organization.
PR Close#38656
Paul Gschwendtner