Thanks all for your return !
I planned first ask how manage release note and second improve the
process if the preference gone to Github, but you already did it Mridul !
Thanks for that.
Nicolas
Le 17/10/2026 à 23:34, Mridul Pathak a écrit :
Hi Nicolas,
Following up on your proposal, I've added a .github/release.yml
(OFBIZ-13696) so that GitHub can generate the release notes, grouped
into Bug fixes, Improvements, New features and Documentation, with the
rest under Other changes. Dependency updates are left out, both the
Dependabot ones and the "Bump ..." PRs made by hand.
GitHub can only group by PR labels, so I also added a small workflow
that labels each PR from its title prefix (Fixed, Improved,
Implemented, Documented, Bump), and I've already labelled all the PRs
merged since 24.09.07. Since GitHub reads release.yml from the tag
being released, once the 24.09.08 tag is re-cut, "Generate release
notes" on the draft release should pick it up directly.
Could you give it a try when you regenerate the 24.09.08 notes?
Thanks,
Mridul Pathak
On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 11:41 PM Mridul Pathak
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Nicolas,
+1 for switching to the GitHub-generated release notes, as you did
in your draft.
Thanks,
Mridul Pathak
On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM Nicolas Malin via dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I current work to prepare the publication of the
release24.09.08 on our
website (ofbiz.apache.org <http://ofbiz.apache.org>) to be
ready when the process release will be
ok and I'm in front of the situation to build the release note
with the
new commit process.
At this time we build the release note from jira [1] :
> Announcing the Release
>...
>Create an html page with the release notes (generated by Jira)
> In Jira, mark the version as "released" and
create a new
version for the next release
> Add the information about the release to the
release
history page: http://www.apache.org/dist/ofbiz/
<http://www.apache.org/dist/ofbiz/>
Like this we obtains the following page [2].
Now If we follow this process, all Github Pull Request without
jira
issue would not be present on the release note. By the way, I
checked
how with github we can create the release not [3] and tried a
draft [4]
(like Jacopo for the 24.09.07).
After that,I would tend to favor to use the release note
generate by
Github without Bump commit. I realized a try on my ofbiz-site
repo [5] [6].
Do you have any other idea/proposal ?
At this end, I'll update our release process on our wiki once
everything
is clear
Nicolas
[1]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/OFBIZ/pages/48203381/Release+Management+Guide+for+OFBiz#ReleaseManagementGuideforOFBiz-AnnouncingtheRelease
[2] https://ofbiz.apache.org/release-notes/24.09.07.html
[3]
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes
[4]
https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/releases/tag/untagged-ad4481e13a2f7d0c3c67
[5]
https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-site/compare/master...nmalin:ofbiz-site:draft-release24.09.08?expand=1
[6]
https://github.com/nmalin/ofbiz-site/blob/a5388186e5b4b14de5ee18e3048bfea7cde418d0/release-notes/24.09.08.html
