update release process to make releases for commits

[danisharora099]

Problem

We currently make releases for the master HEAD every month. This introduces delays to test the functionality as we need to do a release to use the new HEAD.

Proposed Solutions

The proposal is to release commits that are merged to master tagged with their commit hash or even make nightly releases perhaps.
This allows consumers (and us) to be able to test these functionalities outside of the scope of js-waku with ease.

Notes

While some solutions like building js-waku locally and using the build files directly are still possible, they are not as frictionless of a process.

[danisharora099]

@danisharora099 to update the issue to instead have tagged releases for master commits

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update: issue has been updated to reflect the decided end goal

[danisharora099]

something that's quite nice with nwaku release process: waku-org/nwaku#2006 (comment)

[weboko]

next step:

• add beta or next release from the master on each commit;

@danisharora099 why is it a priority?

[danisharora099]

next step:

• add beta or next release from the master on each commit;

@danisharora099 why is it a priority?

not a priority, but we put it there as it should be a fairly less time consuming task iirc

[danisharora099]

@weboko moving this to priority to enable testing unreleased, but merged, code in examples in a way which does not take too much time or friction and as I understand should not take too much time. I'm happy to take this up

[weboko]

I agree it should be done rather early, should be useful

[weboko]

TODO:

• add CI script & version bump;
• need to write script to bump versions of @waku/* dependencies to RC version

[fryorcraken]

I'd suggest to make PR for merged PRs, not all commits.

[weboko]

@fryorcraken do you mean similarly how release-please is working?
It creates PR after merging which release happens.

[fryorcraken]

@fryorcraken do you mean similarly how release-please is working? It creates PR after merging which release happens.

My input was just to release for specific PR merge commit I guess. not every commit of the feature branch.

[weboko]

Addressing it here #1702