add label customisation (#8284)

Author: penalosa

.github/workflows/hotfix-release.yml

@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ on:
         description: "Confirm that the PR is up to date with the last published release, with the specific additional changes that should be released as part of this hotfix and the relevant package patch versions bumped"
         type: boolean
         required: true
-      prerelease:
-        description: "Publish to the hotfix tag on NPM for testing?"
-        type: boolean
+      label:
+        description: "Which dist-tag should this release have?"
+        type: string
+        default: hotfix
         required: true
 jobs:
   hotfix-release:
-    name: Create Draft PR
+    name: Hotfix Release
     if: ${{ inputs.confirm == true }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -56,10 +57,5 @@ jobs:
         env:
           CI_OS: ${{ runner.os }}
 
-      - name: Publish packages (prerelease)
-        if: ${{ inputs.prerelease == true }}
-        run: pnpm publish -r --tag hotfix --filter wrangler --filter miniflare --filter create-cloudflare --dry-run
-
       - name: Publish packages
-        if: ${{ inputs.prerelease == false }}
-        run: pnpm publish -r --filter wrangler --filter miniflare --filter create-cloudflare --dry-run
+        run: pnpm publish -r --tag ${{ inputs.label }} --filter wrangler --filter miniflare --filter create-cloudflare --dry-run

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -446,6 +446,7 @@ If a hotfix release of Wrangler, Miniflare, or C3 is required, you should:
 
 - Get approvals for that PR, and make sure CI checks are passing
 - Manually trigger a hotfix release from that PR using the ["Release a hotfix"](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/actions/workflows/hotfix-release.yml) GitHub action.
-  - Optionally, you can first publish it to the `hotfix` tag on NPM in order to verify the release.
+  - Make sure you set the dist-tag to `latest`
+  - Optionally, you can first publish it to the `hotfix` dist-tag on NPM in order to verify the release.
 - **[CRUCIAL]** Once the hotfix release is out and verified, merge the fixes into main before the next regular release of `workers-sdk`.
 - Make sure that the version number of the next changesets-based release of Wrangler/Miniflare/C3 is greater than the version used for the hotfix by adding a dummy `minor` changeset entry for each of the packages that had a hotfix published.