[GitHub] rhuss commented on issue #354: Automatically add release notes on github releases

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rhuss commented on issue #354: Automatically add release notes on github releases
URL: https://github.com/apache/camel-k/issues/354#issuecomment-456560228
 
 
   Tbh, I still collect the high-level changes manually in a top-level CHANGELOG and verify for each PR that it contains an entry in the changelog if its a relevant PR.
   
   I experimented with auto extracting from commit message, but this requires a level of commit discipline  I never ever have seen in a community project with PR contributions from the outside. Of course, one can insist on rewriting the commit messages when reviewing a PR but at the end, this was just tedious. 
   
   I have to confess that even for PRs which are missing a changelog entry, I often approve the PR to avoid yet another turnaround and edit the changelog directly on upstream master via the GitHub Web UI, adding a line to the Changelog directly.
   
   Example of a changelog maintained this way is https://github.com/fabric8io/docker-maven-plugin/blob/master/doc/changelog.md (the links are created via a script during a release when entering I just add the plain issues/pr number without the link).
   
   'happy to do it differently, but as mentioned, educating people to use a fixed format for the commit messages is a challenge on its own (where I've failed multiple times, think e.g. how we tried to introduce commitizen style logs in the Syndesis project).
   

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