chore(ci): fix alpha versioning pre-release

Author: dreamorosi

Diff for: .github/actions/cached-node-modules/action.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ inputs:
   nodeVersion:  # id of input
     description: 'Node.js version to use in the cache key'
     default: '18'
+  build:
+    description: 'Whether to build the packages or not'
+    default: 'true'
 outputs:
   cache-hit:
     description: "Whether the cache was hit or not"
@@ -28,8 +31,8 @@ runs:
       run: npm ci
       shell: bash
     - name: Build packages
-      # Regardless of whether the cache was hit or not, we need to build the packages.
-      #
+      # Regardless of whether the cache was hit or not, we need to build the packages, unless the caller says otherwise
+      if: inputs.build == 'true'
       # We build the shared package first, then the others in parallel to speed up the process
       # even though we could just run `npm run build` in the root folder and build them in
       # sequence, but still in the correct order.

Diff for: .github/workflows/make-v2-release.yml

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ jobs:
           npm set "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}"
       - name: Setup dependencies
         uses: ./.github/actions/cached-node-modules
+        with:
+          # We don't build the packages here as we want to version them first
+          build: false
       - name: Version
         run: |
           # Version all packages to next major version (2.0.0) without pushing to git, generating changelog or running commit hooks
@@ -36,17 +39,17 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set alpha iteration
         run: |
           # Get the current alpha version from npm i.e 2.0.0-alpha.0 -> 0, 2.0.0-alpha.1 -> 1 (default to -1 if no alpha versions exist = first pre-release)
-          ITERATION=$(npm show @aws-lambda-powertools/commons time --json | jq -r 'to_entries | map(select(.key | startswith("2.0.0-alpha"))) | sort_by(.key) | last | .key // "-1"')
+          ITERATION=$(npm show @aws-lambda-powertools/commons time --json | jq -r 'to_entries | map(select(.key | startswith("2.0.0-alpha"))) | sort_by(.key) | last | .key // "-1"' | cut -d '.' -f 4)
           # Write the new version to the file
           echo "{ \"iteration\": $((ITERATION + 1)) }" > v2.json
       - name: Increment version in UA
         run: |
           # Increment the version in the UA
-          echo "// this file is auto generated, do not modify\nexport const PT_VERSION = '2.0.0-alpha.$(jq -r '.iteration' v2.json)';" > packages/commons/src/version.ts
+          echo -e "// this file is auto generated, do not modify\nexport const PT_VERSION = '2.0.0-alpha.$(jq -r '.iteration' v2.json)';" > packages/commons/src/version.ts
       - name: Build
         run: |
+          npm run build -w packages/commons &
           npm run build -w packages/batch \
-            -w packages/commons \
             -w packages/idempotency \
             -w packages/logger \
             -w packages/metrics \