I don't think it would be that complicated to integrate into shell script based release tooling (maybe I'll have a different opinion in a few weeks after 2.22 is out?). Can't we just make a request to the releases API with curl?
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:39 PM Kyle Weaver <kcwea...@google.com> wrote: > Including the release notes in the tag seems like a good idea. However, I > don't think there is an obvious way to automate the process, since Beam's > primary release tool is shell scripts :) and Github tag summaries are a > Github feature, not a standard git feature. Would it be sufficient to > manually copy the release notes into the tag summary? > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 6:18 PM Julien Phalip <jpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm working with customers who would like to be automatically notified >> when new Beam releases come out. They'd also like to see the release notes >> so they know what changes were made. >> >> I know that these announcements are already sent to the user@ and dev@ >> mailing lists. However, they're not easy to catch automatically as they're >> intermingled with lots of other messages in those lists. >> >> One possible solution would be to leverage the Beam project's releases Atom >> feed <https://github.com/apache/beam/releases.atom> on Github (see also >> the web version <https://github.com/apache/beam/releases>). This allows, >> for example, to automatically publish a notification in Slack >> <https://slack.com/help/articles/218688467-Add-RSS-feeds-to-Slack> when >> a new release comes out. However, the Atom feed only contains the tag names >> without any description because the release notes aren't recorded in Github. >> >> Do you think that the Beam release process could be extended to call the >> Github >> Releases API <https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/> to >> automatically publish the release notes in Github? >> >> As an example, see the Helm project's releases page >> <https://github.com/helm/helm/releases>, where release notes are created >> using a template >> <https://github.com/helm/helm/blob/master/scripts/release-notes.sh> and >> published with a tool called goreleaser <https://goreleaser.com/>. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Julien >> >
