ci: make npm publish dist-tag an explicit choice (0.8) - #1349
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Backport of the main-branch fix so 0.8.5 can be dispatched under the `legacy` dist-tag. The `latest-build` boolean mapped anything other than true to nightly, so the 0.8.5 publish went out as 0.8.5-nightly-6e1cb0a-20260803 under `executorch-nightly`.
A single `legacy` dist-tag only points at one version, so once 0.9 takes it over, a later 0.8 patch published as `legacy` would demote 0.9 back down. Add an optional free-text `dist-tag` input for line-scoped tags like `v0.8`, so each maintenance line keeps a stable install target and nothing has to share `legacy`. Publishing under a throwaway tag and removing it afterwards is not an option here: npm's OIDC trusted publishing authorizes `npm publish` only, so a follow-up `npm dist-tag rm` has no credentials and the junk tag would stick around. The override moves the dist-tag only - the version still comes from release-type - so combining it with nightly is rejected, as is anything npm would refuse as a dist-tag.
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Previously publish without latest checked published as nightly. But sometimes we want to publish new legacy version. This PR adds this possibility.
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After merge: Actions → NPM publish → Run workflow → ref
release/0.8,release-type: legacy. Publishes0.8.5under thelegacydist-tag.Screenshots
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