ci: improve publish to use tags based on branch

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
   publish_packages:
     name: Publish Packages
     needs: [ validations ]
-    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/next' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/beta'
+    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/beta'
     uses: ./.github/workflows/publish.yml
     with:
       node_version: 16

ADRs/003_Release_strategy.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 Date: 28.03.2022
 
+Updated: 12.06.2023
+
 ### Status
 
 accepted
@@ -39,13 +41,16 @@ In the file release.config.js we can configure semantic-release to do the follow
 5. Publish on our GitHub repo the [release notes](https://github.com/otto-ec/b2b-design-system/releases) 
    (@semantic-release/github) 
 
-### Development Options
+### Release types
+
+As we have released a stable version of the library, our release strategy works as follows:
+
+- Any releases run from branch `main` will publish a stable version of the npm package with format `vx.x.x` and tag 
+  `latest`.
+- Any releases run from `beta` will publish a pre-release version of the npm package with format `vx.x.x-beta.n` and 
+  tag `beta`. Where `n` will increase for any new beta release on that `x` version. 
 
-1. Until we reach base maturity in our product, we will release to branch beta, which will create releases in the 
-   format `x.x.x-beta`. Once we have priority 1 components ready, we can merge beta to main and then just continue 
-   with normal feature branches 
-2. Not using `beta` branch. We run the risk reaching early big release numbers as we could potentially be 
-   making many breaking changes.
+- Beta can be merged into `main` once this pre-release has been tested and approved. Then a new Release should be triggered from `main` to publish a stable release.
 
 ## Decision
 We are using a GitHub workflow `release.yml` that is triggered manually from GH Actions ui, by choosing from 

package.json

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
   "homepage": "https://github.com/otto-de/b2b-design-system#readme",
   "scripts": {
     "deploy": "npm run deploy --workspace=@otto-de/b2b-core-components",
-    "publish": "npm publish --workspace packages/",
     "release": "semantic-release",
     "build-tokens": "npm run build --workspace=@otto-de/b2b-tokens",
     "build-core-components": "npm run build --workspace=@otto-de/b2b-core-components",

release.config.js

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module.exports = {
     [
       '@semantic-release/exec',
       {
-        "publishCmd": "npm run publish -- --tag=${branch.name}",
+        "publishCmd": "node ./scripts/publish.sh ${branch.name}",
       }
     ],
     [

scripts/publish.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+branch="${1}"
+
+tag=$branch
+if [[ $branch = 'main' ]] || [[ ! -n $branch ]];
+then
+  tag="latest"
+fi
+
+echo publishing on tag ${tag}
+npm publish --workspace packages/ --tag=$tag