Publish a @celo/contracts and @celo/abis

[nicolasbrugneaux]

Following discussions with @martinvol and @0xarthurxyz , it would be useful for mento to have the ability to import the core celo contracts directly in solidity.

In order to do so they'd need

• the @celo/contracts to be updated on a regular basis (ideally on push to master)
• a @celo/abis to be created and populated with the build directory content of the protocol package

Versioning:

• @celo/contracts and abis should follow the core contract versioning (eg: they're on v8 right now and working on v9) so the npm package should be 8.x

Automation:

• contracts and abis can be published with the prerelease tag on push/merge to master
• for now, because the core contracts release process is still quite manual, the latest tag cannot be automated, but should be "easy" to do (npm dist-tag could be run by whomever releases core contracts?)

[nicolasbrugneaux]

Previous related work 7554

[aaronmgdr]

probably makes sense if they both follow same versioning

[nicolasbrugneaux]

Published both @celo/contracts@beta and @celo/abis@beta manually and a PR with the automation for the publishing on push to master will be opened

[nicolasbrugneaux]

PR WIP here: #10297

[nicolasbrugneaux]

State of the issue:

• NPM publishing automation is now ready, but remains to be merged as it needs an additional npm auth token (blocked by the NPM automation task Dan and Patrick are finishing)
• Contracts are published (manually for now, automatically when PR is merged) at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@celo/contracts and https://www.npmjs.com/package/@celo/abis
• We shared a link with Mento on discord:

• Ownership is now with the Primitive team on usage. We consider our contribution done, with that being said, we stay available to help to add the env variable if needed! :)

[nicolasbrugneaux]

Changing issue status to blocked as per the msg above.

[nicolasbrugneaux]

And published types with the abis as of @celo/[email protected]

[arthurgousset]

Closing this ticket because the packages are published and can be used.