RELEASE_PROCESS.md

Release Process

Crayons will be having 2 branches:

1. master - release branch
2. next - pre-release branch (experimental branch)

Steps:

1. Any new PRs will be merged to the next branch after approval. Feature, refactor, and bug fix branches are created from next

2. Weekly pre-release

   1. The next branch will be used for pre-release. (3.1.1-beta.1).
   2. It will be published to npm with dist-tag as next - 3.1.1-beta.1@next.

3. Stable release

   1. The next branch will be merged to the master branch.
   2. The pre-release version will be graduated to a stable release version (3.1.2).
   3. It will be published to npm with dist-tag as latest - 3.1.2

Merge main branch into next branch post releasing stable version.

The above release process is described as below: