build: use default channel for prereleases

[davidlj95]

Issue or need

Until now, semantic releases have been done in the main channel by mistake. This meant having a main NPM dist tag for every release. In order to get the latest tag for pre-releases, tag was set to latest in package.json's publishConfig.

But that's a misconfiguration workaround. The proper way is to indicate pre-releases on the default channel in semantic release. Which means using the latest dist tag on npm.

Related to this: npm publish default was to add latest tag to every publish. But as that can be not desired it some scenarios, seems this default may change soon

Proposed changes

Use default channel for pre-releases in semantic release configuration. Remove tag in package.json used to add latest apart from main dist tag.

In order to migrate existing releases to the default channel, manually updated git notes. Git notes are used by semantic release to track in which channel(s) a release has been performed.

Relevant commands:

• git for-each-ref 'refs/notes/*' # to list local notes refs
  • May add --format '%(refname)' --shell
• git ls-remote 'refs/notes/*' # to list remote notes
• git fetch origin 'refs/notes/*:refs/notes/*' # to fetch remote notes
• git update-ref -d 'refs/notes/<ref>' # to remove local ref
• git push --delete origin 'refs/notes/<ref>' # to remove remote ref
• git notes --ref <note-ref> add -f -m 'content' <ref> # to add a note to a ref

Notes content is (to indicate default branch):

{"channels":[null]}

Notes ref name is (recently changed though)

semantic-release-{gitTag}

https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release/blob/v23.1.1/lib/git.js#L344-L350

Name was before semantic-release for all tags

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• build: use default channel for prereleases #609 👈
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📦 Bundle size (Angular v17)

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Git ref: 85b1214adae9579e02f4607a32e7ad6253f5e929

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📦 Bundle size (Angular v18)

Git ref: 85b1214adae9579e02f4607a32e7ad6253f5e929

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ngx-meta-json-ld.mjs	226 bytes (226B)	226 bytes (226B)	No change
ngx-meta-open-graph.mjs	869 bytes (869B)	869 bytes (869B)	No change
ngx-meta-routing.mjs	839 bytes (839B)	839 bytes (839B)	No change
ngx-meta-standard.mjs	768 bytes (768B)	768 bytes (768B)	No change
ngx-meta-twitter-card.mjs	470 bytes (470B)	470 bytes (470B)	No change
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📦 Bundle size (Angular v15)

Git ref: 85b1214adae9579e02f4607a32e7ad6253f5e929

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ngx-meta-json-ld.mjs	386 bytes (386B)	386 bytes (386B)	No change
ngx-meta-open-graph.mjs	1220 bytes (1.2KiB)	1220 bytes (1.2KiB)	No change
ngx-meta-routing.mjs	1009 bytes (1009B)	1009 bytes (1009B)	No change
ngx-meta-standard.mjs	885 bytes (885B)	885 bytes (885B)	No change
ngx-meta-twitter-card.mjs	641 bytes (641B)	641 bytes (641B)	No change
Total	7642 bytes (7.5KiB)	7642 bytes (7.5KiB)	No change

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