My Workflow
My team recently was running into a problem generating reliable release notes for our software. We decided we wanted to automate it from a CHANGELOG.md file. However, that meant we needed to always keep that file up to date with changes.
So I made a GitHub action that enforces that changes had been made to the file 😀
Submission Category:
Maintainer Must-Haves
Yaml File or Link to Code
The repository can be found here
dangoslen
/
changelog-enforcer
A simple GitHub action that enforces that a maintained changelog is kept up to date.
Changelog Enforcer
The purpose of this action is to enforce that every pull request in a repository includes a change to an ongoing changelog file. Inspired by Keep A Changelog, this action helps development teams to keep a change file up to date as new features or fixes are implemented.
Usage
To use this action, follow the typical GitHub Action uses syntax. An example workflow using the default parameters of this action is shown below:
name: "Pull Request Workflow"
on
pull_request:
# The specific activity types are listed here to include "labeled" and "unlabeled"
# (which are not included by default for the "pull_request" trigger).
# This is needed to allow skipping enforcement of the changelog in PRs with specific labels,
# as defined in the (optional) "skipLabels" property.
types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, ready_for_review, labeled, unlabeled]
jobs:
# Enforces the update of…Additional Resources / Info
You can use this action in conjunction with the Changelog Reader Action to keep an updated CHANGELOG.md file and automatically generate release notes with your GitHub releases!
An example workflow is found in the Changelog Enforcer Workflows which creates a new version on every push to master.
Hope you enjoy it!
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