Prerelease option

[ChipWolf]

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Surface the prerelease parameter from release-please

[ChipWolf]

This is now available upstream https://github.com/googleapis/release-please/pull/1200

[ChipWolf]

Workaround is to use the prerelease option in the manifest releaser.

[mrchief]

The manifest releaser doesn't seem to work correctly. E.g., I had changes in 3 packages and It created 3 releases out of which only the first one was created as prerelease. My config

{
  "prerelease": true,
  "bootstrap-sha": "6f0472d2059ddbd8db6d839f2ed586a4ea790a3f",
  "packages": {
    "packages/foo": {},
    "packages/bar": {},
    "packages/johngalt": {}
  }
}

[mrchief]

On second look, the docs mention

those as "Prerelease" releases that have pre-major or prerelease versions.

so it's working as advertised but also is misleading of sorts. No way to create prereleases for post major versions.

[ChipWolf]

On second look, the docs mention

those as "Prerelease" releases that have pre-major or prerelease versions.

so it's working as advertised but also is misleading of sorts. No way to create prereleases for post major versions.

Probably worth raising that issue upstream

[bcoe]

@ChipWolf if there's a bug with the prerelease behavior, I think we should open an issue on the release-please repository.

It sounds like along with this, we just want to add an additional configuration option to the action?