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
Joey Perrott
Paul Gschwendtner