Release process notes

Prerelease

create a new branch with some name
write up changelog changes (manually), commit that
yarn lerna version --no-push --no-commit-hooks 6.2.0-alpha.2 This lets lerna update the package.json versions (and dependencies) and commits the result as well as adds a tag --no-push because we can't push to master --no-commit-hooks because otherwise the commit hooks will prevent the commit
git push origin --follow-tags $branch
make PR
merge PR
re-fetch the new master and check it out locally
yarn install
yarn lerna publish --dist-tag prerelease --ignore-scripts from-package
- --dist-tag is important to avoid tagging this release as the stable release
- --ignore-scripts skips the build steps since they already ran during yarn install
- you will likely need to publish several times as your OTP expires
- you might get rate limited as well
- between publish attempts, you'll have to undo the gitHead changes in the package.json files