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Support beta builds of DT packages?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
devops, release

Research direction

Start by tracing main() and the publisher-bot request path, then inspect where definitelyTypedZipUrl and package deployment tags are handled. Confirm how a PR archive and requested packages would reach the deployment flow. Done means a bot request can publish selected PR packages under a non-latest npm tag without changing the default release.

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Description

Let's take a big PR like "add Node 16" - today it's tested via the .d.ts files and humans look over and guestimate whether this is going to break projects.

We could support: "@typescript-bot pack this" which would trigger a HTTP call to the publisher bot, instead of running main() it would:

Happy to pair on this if folks are interested

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
423
Forks
237
Avg merge
18h 18m
Merged PRs (30d)
11

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