Merge pull request #171 from ember-cli/release-automation

Update release automation setup.

Author: Robert Jackson

RELEASE.md

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-# Release
+# Release Process
 
 Releases are mostly automated using
 [release-it](https://github.com/release-it/release-it/) and
 [lerna-changelog](https://github.com/lerna/lerna-changelog/).
 
-
 ## Preparation
 
 Since the majority of the actual release process is automated, the primary
@@ -25,39 +24,33 @@ When reviewing merged PR's the labels to be used are:
 * internal - Used for internal changes that still require a mention in the
   changelog/release notes.
 
-
 ## Release
 
 Once the prep work is completed, the actual release is straight forward:
 
-* First ensure that you have `release-it` installed globally, generally done by
-  using one of the following commands:
+* First, ensure that you have installed your projects dependencies:
 
+```sh
+yarn install
 ```
-# using https://volta.sh
-volta install release-it
 
-# using Yarn
-yarn global add release-it
+* Second, ensure that you have obtained a
+  [GitHub personal access token][generate-token] with the `repo` scope (no
+  other permissions are needed). Make sure the token is available as the
+  `GITHUB_AUTH` environment variable.
 
-# using npm
-npm install --global release-it
-```
+  For instance:
 
-* Second, ensure that you have installed your projects dependencies:
+  ```bash
+  export GITHUB_AUTH=abc123def456
+  ```
 
-```
-yarn install
-```
+[generate-token]: https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=repo&description=GITHUB_AUTH+env+variable
 
-* And last (but not least 😁) do your release. It requires a
-  [GitHub personal access token](https://github.com/settings/tokens) as
-  `$GITHUB_AUTH` environment variable. Only "repo" access is needed; no "admin"
-  or other scopes are required.
+* And last (but not least 😁) do your release.
 
-```
-export GITHUB_AUTH="f941e0..."
-release-it
+```sh
+npx release-it
 ```
 
 [release-it](https://github.com/release-it/release-it/) manages the actual

package.json

@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@
     "@babel/plugin-transform-typescript": "^7.12.1",
     "@babel/preset-env": "^7.12.11",
     "babel-core": "^6.25.0",
-    "eslint": "^7.16.0",
-    "eslint-config-prettier": "^6.15.0",
+    "eslint": "^7.17.0",
+    "eslint-config-prettier": "^7.1.0",
     "eslint-plugin-node": "^11.1.0",
-    "eslint-plugin-prettier": "^3.3.0",
+    "eslint-plugin-prettier": "^3.3.1",
     "jest": "^24.9.0",
     "prettier": "^2.2.1",
     "release-it": "^14.2.2",
-    "release-it-lerna-changelog": "^2.4.0"
+    "release-it-lerna-changelog": "^3.1.0"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": "6.* || 8.* || >= 10.*"