Feature request: Make npm configuration optional

[iiian]

Is it a core use case or an opt-in use case that semantic-release be able to publish to npm?

If not, I think it would increase the value of the setup tool to be able to produce configurations where npm publishing is only optional

[adrienjoly]

Yes, I don't publish all my semantically versionned repos to npm!

I would be happy to pass a flag in order to avoid being asked about my npm credentials

$ npx semantic-release-cli setup --no-npm

Anybody started working on something like this, by any chance?

[gr2m]

You can just add "private": true to the package.json

Is it a core use case or an opt-in use case that semantic-release be able to publish to npm?

we do plan to decompose the semantic-release module and create @semantic-release/core, exactly for use cases like this where you are not interested in npm.