1242425 - Add Changelog generation for releases

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Hello (Loop) :: Client, defect, P1)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

For releases, I think its going to be really useful and clear if we have a changelog generation system in place. Otherwise, the only easy way is via the command line, which isn't so convenient.

I've found https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gitchangelog which gives a reasonable changelog even if it possibly isn't the best, but it should be a good start.

Comment 1

[GitHub Autolander Bot]

Attachment: [loop] Standard8:bug-1242425-changelog > mozilla:master

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Comment on attachment 8711632 [details] [review]
[loop] Standard8:bug-1242425-changelog > mozilla:master

The .gitchangelogrc is based off the sample one, but with a few modifications to recognise the "Bug xxx" format, and "Chore(package)" format. The Chore one is used in the greenkeeper requests we get.

You can test the output using `make update_version`, just be aware that it git adds the changed files, so you'll need to do `git diff --cached`.

There's also an example output file I put here:

https://github.com/Standard8/loop/blob/805ac65ec44bf3957903dd40527d4ccff5f36621/CHANGELOG.md

Note that version is incorrect (it'd be 0.1.0 probably), and it has all the changes from the history that we've landed in the repo. Newer releases will have a much smaller set.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Comment on attachment 8711632 [details] [review]
[loop] Standard8:bug-1242425-changelog > mozilla:master

I've just discovered this isn't working the way I expected :-(

Not sure why yet.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Comment on attachment 8711632 [details] [review]
[loop] Standard8:bug-1242425-changelog > mozilla:master

Fixed it, sorry about that. I'd missed changing the regexp for the version tag in the rc file.

Comment 5

[Chris Rafuse :crafuse]

Comment on attachment 8711632 [details] [review]
[loop] Standard8:bug-1242425-changelog > mozilla:master

Looks good.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

https://github.com/mozilla/loop/commit/277e2345355e1dc5e9aa9dd803ed9f938ce06f51