Needed: A GitHub Action to package and publish a new version

[cclauss]

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/building-and-testing-nodejs#packaging-workflow-data-as-artifacts

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• Release workflow #744

[acalcutt]

In maplibre-native workflow we settled on this workflow that checks if the version in package.json is published.
https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/blob/main/.github/workflows/node-release.yml#L9-L34

If it is not published it runs the build
https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/blob/main/.github/workflows/node-release.yml#L38

maybe something like that would work here. Seems like it would be easier because this project doesn't really need to build anything, just run the publish steps.
https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/blob/main/.github/workflows/node-release.yml#L304-L310

[cclauss]

Cool! Pull requests will be reviewed. Let's see how that approach works.

[mapsam]

I'm in favor of GitHub release for this as well. This may be blocked by using the @mapbox/node-pre-gyp namespace for a bit, since the Mapbox NPM scope is pretty locked down and I'm not sure we'll be able to grant tokens for public repositories like this. Ultimately this is a good argument to move back to the unscoped node-pre-gyp NPM module which does not have the same security restrictions.

Not ideal, but in the short-term I can cut one-off prereleases for @mapbox/node-pre-gyp as needed @cclauss

[cclauss]

I understand the complexities. I think we need a pre-release and then a release BEFORE we merge other changes (all the Dependabot changes, etc.). Please proceed with that pre-release when you feel comfortable doing so.

[mapsam]

Sounds good! Can you give me a commit to prerelease from? Just want to make sure I release what you're expecting. Latest master is 13d4ac7

I'll plan on 1.1.0-dev.1 since Node.js 22 has been added, but if you see this as a breaking change happy to move into v2 v1.0.11...master

[mapsam]

@mapbox/[email protected] has been published from 13d4ac7.

I need to push package.json version changes to GitHub in order to publish to the @mapbox/ namespace, so technically the version is published from 996b31b.

I'll use https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp/tree/mapsam/v1.1.0-pre and keep it in sync with master as you need more dev releases and until the GitHub Actions work is set up.

@cclauss let me know if you'd prefer a separate ticket to request/discuss releases, just to keep this issue focused on the GitHub Action work!