fix(release): don't fail a publish on npm read lag

[wyattjoh]

Requested by Wyatt · project thread

Before: the first canary after #498 (6772446) still failed. All eight platform packages published, none read back within five minutes, and the clerk wrapper was never published.

After: if the platform packages aren't readable within two minutes, the releaser logs a warning and publishes the wrapper anyway.

#498 assumed the lag came from caching and switched to the per-version document (registry.npmjs.org/<name>/<version>), which the CDN doesn't cache. The runner still got 404s for five minutes, and the same URLs returned 200 from outside a few minutes later, so the delay is on npm's side and no endpoint change gets around it. Every platform publish had already been accepted by npm, and the wrapper is subject to the same read lag, so failing the job only strands the wrapper.

How: the per-package wait in scripts/releaser.ts is wrapped in a try/catch. A timeout or registry error becomes a ::warning:: annotation, and the wrapper publish goes ahead. The wait is back to two minutes so a slow registry doesn't hold the job for long. The #498 changes (idempotent publish, allSettled) are unchanged. The docs are updated to match.

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The release script now waits up to 120 seconds for npm to serve each platform package. If the wait fails, the script logs a warning and continues publication. The release documentation now notes that npm may take several minutes to serve a new version and describes the shorter wait.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2872a

A transient npm read failure can let the wrapper publish while platform packages are still unreadable. This is a bounded release-window risk; retry transient errors while preserving immediate handling of terminal failures.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: release publication no longer fails because npm has not made published packages readable yet.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the npm read delay, the two-minute best-effort wait, warning behavior, wrapper publication, and documentation update.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…
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In `@scripts/releaser.ts`:
- Around line 119-121: Update waitUntilPublished to preserve isPublished’s
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