Add an option to `not` mark maintenance releases as latest

[viceice]

I would like to have an option to not mark maintenance releases as latest on github.
Currently our main branch is on v4 and we've maintenance releases on v2.
Everytime a v2 get's released, it's marked as latest by default.
So an option to override would be very useful.

[gr2m]

Hmm sounds like a bug to me in the first place. We probably just didn't get around to address this, or the APIs didn't exist at the time.

[travi]

agreed. i cant think of a reason why a maintenance release should ever be marked as latest

[michaelchambaud-eaton]

I have the same issue.

There is a make_latest: string (defaults: true) in GH API -> https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/releases?apiVersion=2022-11-28#create-a-release

I'm thinking it should be added here:

github/lib/publish.js

Line 54 in c70cfbf

prerelease: isPrerelease(branch),

[travi]

We do want to fix this. If you've investigated far enough to see a solution, please feel free to send a PR to keep this moving forward

[robfraz]

Hello - is there any news on this issue? It looks like the linked PR has stalled...? 😢

Is there any kind of workaround anyone can recommend?

[viceice]

simply setting make_latest=legacy will probably fix it too?