public, 'current' version tag: v7 or v8

[peterblazejewicz]

Hi,

not a code issue:

This is for maintainers of the repo. I'd like to create a PR against Definitely Typed repository to deprecated v7 of @types/video.js and to redirect types acquisition for @latest version against current NPM registry. But I have a doubt, as the repository lists v8 recent releases as prerelease, while NPM registry lists 8.0.4 version as both latest and next versions.
npm pack seems to confirm v8 is latest version, non-prerelease.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/video.js?activeTab=versions
https://unpkg.com/browse/[email protected]/dist/types/video.d.ts

As the results, the v8 will be picked as the version suggested by automatic type acquisition feature in TS (VS/VSCode,etc), unless the entry in package.json suggests v7 (or older)

Thanks!

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[gkatsev]

The npm tags tend to be more up-to-date compared to the github tags. We don't tend to clear out the next tag when promoting to latest on npm, though.

The DT types do work for Video.js v7 and older, though. But deprecating it for v8 sounds fine. Though, probably fix some things like #8109 before this is deprecated.

[peterblazejewicz]

@gkatsev thanks! subscribed to 8109, thanks!

[wseymour15]

Closing this as it seems to be resolved and being tracked in another issue. Please re-open if needed.