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Automatically publish a nightly or weekly pre-release

See original GitHub issue

There are some nice Actions out there that could help us do this, but my intent is to encourage others to help us test our builds more regularly, helping us to land important changes and communicate what we’re working on. Would love if someone wanted to jump in and help us by drafting something or stirring the conversation.

More thoughts:

Using same prelease name or tag could be nice? Something like Chrome’s canary? nightly, weekly, or preview also could work…
I think this would only really apply to v5 and our main branch.
Automating the changelog and publishing on a cron job feels straightforward enough?

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Created 3 years ago
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korki43commented, Mar 28, 2021

@whizzsfe I’m totally with you. I think it would attract more people to test the nightly version if it was released directly on npm. It’s way more comfortable to just install it with npm and have it integrate with all the other modules, than to build the whole project yourself or download it from the releases.

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whizzsfecommented, Mar 28, 2021

I don’t see using the same tag over again. It would make issue tracking hard… Then again I just use a plain git pull to get current changes.

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