release-note-generator-action
GitHub Action to create a release notes using the Spring.io release notes generator script.
What is this for?
This script is intended to help you to aumates the release notes for your project. It is generated based on the Spring.io release notes generator script: https://github.com/spring-io/github-release-notes-generator
And it is creating a relase notes like the one you can, for example, find on the Spring-Boot project: https://github.com/spring-io/github-release-notes-generator
How can I use it?
The script is using environment variables and secrets to connect to GitHub and retrieve the necessary informaation for the release notes generation.
- RELEASE_NOTE_GENERATOR_VERSION: Version of the script to use. By default is configured to use v0.0.2 (right now the latest one).
- ORG_NAME: organization name owning the project you want to generate release notes for
- REPOSITORY: your project name.
- MILESTONE_ID: the milestone id. It should retrieved directly by the GitHub action flow (in progress)
- TARGET_FILE: target markdown file in which you want to create the release notes. By default release_notes.md. You can link to the action to upload it to your GitHub repo (release creation? wiki page? or whatever you want)
Sample usage workflow configuration
workflow "New workflow" {
on = "push"
resolves = ["Release Notes Generator"]
}
action "Release Notes Generator" {
uses = "./"
secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN"]
env = {
ORG_NAME = "mmornati"
REPOSITORY = "docker-ghostblog"
MILESTONE_ID = "1"
}
}