NPM Tag for latest community release

[eneufeld]

Feature Description:

As more and more people use the community release, it would be great to be able to just use a tag to automatically use the latest community release similar to the existing latest tag to get the latest released version.

[JonasHelming]

@vince-fugnitto @tsmaeder Would this create any overhead? Thoughts?

[vince-fugnitto]

@JonasHelming I believe it is something we already discussed in the past, but the argument was that community releases are just like regular releases (https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/wiki/Dev-Meetings-2022#agenda-2022-07-05) but should be advertised more.

In terms of supporting a tag, it should be fairly straightforward to publish using a new tag like community for example.

• https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-publish#tag.

[JonasHelming]

I added it to the agenda for next week: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/wiki/Dev-Meetings

[JonasHelming]

@vince-fugnitto I assign this to you as you offered to add this to the release docu, hope this is fine.