Discuss/Setup NPM Release Process

[rvenables]

It would be helpful to have an established NPM release process. Initial open questions for discussion:

• Should we automate the NPM package release process? If so, how should it be triggered?
• Should we have a test / prerelease NPM package version?
• Should we adopt a versioning strategy (like https://semver.org/)

[rvenables]

@caravansteve talked about writing up some options and suggested direction on the community development call (http://chat.opr.dev/) on 6/9.

[caravansteve]

From Benjamin Coe at Google:

With regards to publishing, you may still consider automating this process to limit the # of users with access on npm -- you might look at release-please, which I have setup for my open source project yargs.