Add --pre-release automatically for odd minor versions

Author: soumeh01

.devcontainer/ubuntu-24.04/.npmrc

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-@arm-debug:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com
+@open-cmsis-pack:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com
 //npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${GITHUB_TOKEN}

DEVELOPMENT.md

@@ -33,22 +33,20 @@ In short, run this command from the extracted directory on the Arm network:
 ## Running the extension in development
 
 1. To download the tools, you must have a `GITHUB_TOKEN` environment variable containing a
-   personal access token. This must have the `repo` scope and SSO enabled for the Arm-Debug
-   organization.
+   personal access token.
 
-2. In order to install dependencies, you must have npm configured to access the Arm-Debug registry
-   for packages that are scoped with `@arm-debug`. Edit your global .npmrc file, and add the
+2. In order to install dependencies, Edit your global .npmrc file, and add the
    following to it:
 
     ```txt
-    @arm-debug:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com
+    @open-cmsis-pack:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com
     //npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${GITHUB_TOKEN}
     ```
 
     This assumes a `GITHUB_TOKEN` environment variable is exported in your environment. This needs
     to be a GitHub personal access token with the `read:packages` scope set on it.
 
-3. Install NPM dependencies, Core Tools and build the TypeScript
+3. Install NPM dependencies and build the TypeScript
 
     ```sh
     npm install
@@ -198,59 +196,32 @@ Before running a release, check the following:
 
 4. [Release Assessment](https://armh.sharepoint.com/sites/pwa/PJ1000480/SitePages/Assessments.aspx) for `CMSIS Solution Extension` is approved.
 
-### Release workflow
+## Release versioning
 
-Use GitHub Actions workflow dispatch to trigger a release:
+This repository follows the VS Code Marketplace pre-release recommendation:
 
-1. Navigate to <https://github.com/Arm-Debug/vscode-cmsis-csolution/actions/workflows/ci.yml>,
-   then click "Run workflow"
-2. Select the main branch
-3. Select type of new version, e.g. 'Minor'
-4. Select "Skip public publishing jobs' if the version should be created on GitHub but NOT being
-   published to Marketplace
-5. Click "Run workflow"
+- **Odd** minor versions (`x.1.z`, `x.3.z`, ...) are pre-releases.
+- **Even** minor versions (`x.0.z`, `x.2.z`, ...) are full releases.
 
-Notes
+To enforce this consistently, both packaging and publishing use `scripts/package.ts`, which:
 
-- When 'Pre-release' is selected, the version is either:
-  - incremented according the latest published pre-release (patch +1), if it is greater than the current version
-  - incremented according the the current version, newMinorVersion is always an odd number (including 0), e.g. 0,1,3,...
-- When 'Major', 'Minor' or 'Patch' is selected, the version will be increased and the new version
-  number will be committed to package.json. If a second release is triggered, it will also be
-  increased, regardless of being pushed to marketplace or not.
-- 'Major' increments major version
-- 'Minor' increments to an even number, e.g. 0,2,4,...
-- 'Patch' increments patch version
-- see [vscode-actions](https://github.com/Arm-Debug/vscode-actions/blob/main/calculate-new-version/src/bump-version.ts)
+- checks the current `package.json` version minor value.
+- automatically adds `--pre-release` to `vsce package` for odd minor versions.
 
-Github actions will then
+Use the following commands:
 
-- Bump the versions in the package.json files
-- Add the new version to the CHANGELOG.md, and move all changes listed under "Unreleased" to the new version.
-- Commit and push the version and changelog updates
-- Build the VSIX package
-- Create a GitHub release with the VSIX package
-- Publish the package on [Open VSX](https://open-vsx.org/extension/arm/cmsis-csolution) and [VS Code Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Arm.cmsis-csolution)
-- Publish the API types to the Arm-Debug GitHub Packages npm registry
-- Sync the docs to [ARM-software/vscode-cmsis-csolution](https://github.com/ARM-software/vscode-cmsis-csolution)
-
-After publishing, check that the new version is installable in VSCode and docs for the new version
-have been synced to Arm-Software.
-
-### Publishing to VS Code Marketplace
-
-The marketplace access token is controlled by the [DSG-OTG](https://dev.azure.com/DSG-OTG)
-organization in Azure. It is available in CI as an Arm-Debug GitHub organization secret. This must
-be rotated every 90 days.
-
-See the documentation for publishing extensions:
-<https://code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension>
+```sh
+> npm run package [--target <target>]
+```
 
-### Publishing Open-VSX
+### Release Workflow
 
-The arm namespace Open-VSX is accessible from your [user settings](https://open-vsx.org/user-settings)
-when your GitHub account has been linked to the arm namespace. An access token is stored as an
-Arm-Debug GitHub organization secret.
+1. Ensure the version in `package.json` is up to date.
+2. Update the `CHANGELOG` with the latest changes.
+3. Open a pull request with these updates and merge it into `main`.
+4. Create a new release at: https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/vscode-cmsis-solution/releases
+   - This will trigger the `CI.yml` workflow.  
+   - Once the workflow completes successfully, the release artifacts will be generated automatically.
 
 ## Debugging in KSC
 

scripts/package.ts

@@ -22,9 +22,20 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 import { glob } from 'glob';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 import { execSync } from 'child_process';
+import { parse as parseSemver } from 'semver';
 
 const argv = process.argv.slice(2);
 
+function isOddMinorVersion(version: string): boolean {
+    const parsedVersion = parseSemver(version);
+
+    if (!parsedVersion) {
+        throw new Error(`Invalid package version: ${version}`);
+    }
+
+    return parsedVersion.minor % 2 === 1;
+}
+
 // default target: host OS and architecture
 let target = `${os.platform()}-${os.arch()}`;
 
@@ -38,6 +49,18 @@ if (targetFlag !== -1) {
 // copy pre-downloaded node-pty for the target platform
 const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
 const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
+const packageJsonPath = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'package.json');
+const packageJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packageJsonPath, 'utf8')) as { version?: string };
+const version = packageJson.version;
+
+if (!version) {
+    throw new Error(`Missing version in ${packageJsonPath}`);
+}
+
+if (isOddMinorVersion(version) && !argv.includes('--pre-release')) {
+    argv.push('--pre-release');
+}
+
 const src = path.resolve(__dirname, '..','tools', 'node-pty');
 if (fs.existsSync(src)) {
     const dst = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'node_modules', '@lydell');