Monorepo-style tags break latest release detection

[1ec5]

The mapbox-gl-native repository uses a non-semver-compliant tag naming scheme that prepends a platform identifier to an otherwise semver-compliant version number, since the various libraries developed in that monorepo are versioned independently. This tool relies on the latest-semver package, which is unable to understand these version numbers on its own:

github-release-tools/src/get-latest-release.js

Line 13 in 8d88e10

return `v${latestSemver(data.map(tag => tag.name))}`;

Fortunately, I think we can make the tool compatible with mapbox-gl-native by filtering tags by platform and stripping off the platform identifiers before calling latestSemver(). The tool would need a new command line option to specify a platform.

/cc @anandthakker

[anandthakker]

Note also that the --previous option already provides a workaround for this

[1ec5]

--previous is only a workaround if there’s at most one release that you want to ignore. However, in the mapbox-gl-native repository, it’s usually the case that you want to ignore several recent releases from a few different platforms.