Running semantic release on the top level project

[juancarlosjr97]

Issue type

• idea / discussion

Acknowledgement

Great work guys, with this issue (actually discussion) I hope I can contribute to the library and its support of it as I am big fan of semantic release :)

Discussion

I have projects that have a global configuration, or shared local packages and we have a monorepo structure. Now, the monorepo release works as expected, with no issues, but the top level as a whole does not run.

Based on what I could find, this is intended, as this runs as part of a semantic release. However, I thought of a workaround which was to trigger semantic release for monorepo and traditional repository, which is the issue. When semantic release runs for the top level project, if it is before, semantic release monorepo will see the branch as behind and it if is after the traditional monorepo will see it as behind so, so unless they run in parallel and pull the repository before any of them run the semantic release git change, then it does not work.

Actual behavior

I would love to run semantic release monorepo and if I have 5 workspaces, it will identify 6 releases, including the top level project as a whole and that could be optional.

• I've read the docs. This case is not mentioned
• Similar issue does not exist

Steps to reproduce

Specifications

• version: @qiwi/[email protected]
• platform: Any!

[juancarlosjr97]

Looking at the code, here https://github.com/qiwi/multi-semantic-release/blob/master/lib/multiSemanticRelease.js#L116 I have some thoughts to make it work, but if there is something we would like to add, I can make some time for it!