build: publish script should not print error if tag does not exist (#15080)

Currently the publish script prints an error if the release tag does not exist locally yet. This is not expected since the function
that calls `git` to check if a given tag exists, returns a boolean and should not additionally print the git `stderr`.

Note we can also look into attaching the release notes automatically, but since the release notes are making the URL too large and Github denies too large URL's, this is something we can explore in a follow-ups.

Author: devversion

tools/release/extract-release-notes.ts

@@ -10,8 +10,12 @@ export function extractReleaseNotes(changelogPath: string, versionName: string)
   // section of a version by starting with the release header which can either use the markdown
   // "h1" or "h2" syntax. The end of the section will be matched by just looking for the first
   // subsequent release header.
-  const releaseNotesRegex = new RegExp(`(##? ${escapedVersion}.*?)##? 7\\.`, 's');
+  const releaseNotesRegex = new RegExp(
+      `(##? ${escapedVersion} "(.*?)" \\(.*?)##? \\d+\\.\\d+`, 's');
   const matches = releaseNotesRegex.exec(changelogContent);
 
-  return matches ? matches[1].trim() : null;
+  return matches ? {
+    releaseTitle: matches[2],
+    releaseNotes: matches[1].trim(),
+  } : null;
 }

tools/release/git/git-client.ts

@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ export class GitClient {
    * Spawns a child process running Git. The "stderr" output is inherited and will be printed
    * in case of errors. This makes it easier to debug failed commands.
    */
-  private _spawnGitProcess(args: string[]): SpawnSyncReturns<string> {
+  private _spawnGitProcess(args: string[], printStderr = true): SpawnSyncReturns<string> {
     return spawnSync('git', args, {
       cwd: this.projectDir,
-      stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'inherit'],
+      stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', printStderr ? 'inherit' : 'pipe'],
       encoding: 'utf8',
     });
   }
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ export class GitClient {
 
   /** Checks whether the specified tag exists locally. */
   hasLocalTag(tagName: string) {
-    return this._spawnGitProcess(['rev-parse', `refs/tags/${tagName}`]).status === 0;
+    return this._spawnGitProcess(['rev-parse', `refs/tags/${tagName}`], false).status === 0;
   }
 
   /** Gets the Git SHA of the specified local tag. */

tools/release/git/github-urls.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ export function getGithubBranchCommitsUrl(owner: string, repository: string, bra
   return `https://github.com/${owner}/${repository}/commits/${branchName}`;
 }
 
-/** Gets a Github URL that refers list of releases within the specified repository. */
-export function getGithubReleasesUrl(owner: string, repository: string) {
-  return `https://github.com/${owner}/${repository}/releases`;
+/** Gets a Github URL that can be used to create a new release from a given tag. */
+export function getGithubNewReleaseUrl(options: {owner: string, repository: string,
+    tagName: string, releaseTitle: string}) {
+
+  return `https://github.com/${options.owner}/${options.repository}/releases/new?` +
+    `tag=${encodeURIComponent(options.tagName)}&` +
+    `title=${encodeURIComponent(options.releaseTitle)}&`;
 }

tools/release/publish-release.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {BaseReleaseTask} from './base-release-task';
 import {checkReleaseOutput} from './check-release-output';
 import {extractReleaseNotes} from './extract-release-notes';
 import {GitClient} from './git/git-client';
-import {getGithubReleasesUrl} from './git/github-urls';
+import {getGithubNewReleaseUrl} from './git/github-urls';
 import {isNpmAuthenticated, runInteractiveNpmLogin, runNpmPublish} from './npm/npm-client';
 import {promptForNpmDistTag} from './prompt/npm-dist-tag-prompt';
 import {releasePackages} from './release-output/release-packages';
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class PublishReleaseTask extends BaseReleaseTask {
     checkReleaseOutput(this.releaseOutputPath);
 
     // Extract the release notes for the new version from the changelog file.
-    const releaseNotes = extractReleaseNotes(
+    const {releaseNotes, releaseTitle} = extractReleaseNotes(
       join(this.projectDir, CHANGELOG_FILE_NAME), newVersionName);
 
     if (!releaseNotes) {
@@ -114,11 +114,17 @@ class PublishReleaseTask extends BaseReleaseTask {
       this.publishPackageToNpm(packageName, npmDistTag);
     }
 
+    const newReleaseUrl = getGithubNewReleaseUrl({
+      owner: this.repositoryOwner,
+      repository: this.repositoryName,
+      tagName: newVersionName,
+      releaseTitle: releaseTitle,
+    });
+
     console.log();
     console.info(green(bold(`  ✓   Published all packages successfully`)));
     console.info(yellow(`  ⚠   Please draft a new release of the version on Github.`));
-    console.info(yellow(
-      `      ${getGithubReleasesUrl(this.repositoryOwner, this.repositoryName)}`));
+    console.info(yellow(`      ${newReleaseUrl}`));
   }
 
   /**