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Automatically crediting the author/contributor of the PR in the release notes

Open ghuntley opened this issue 9 years ago • 11 comments

Let's discuss a potential feature/addition to GitReleaseManager!

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Why? People like seeing their name up in lights, it a small gesture and a great way to encourage contributions. This functionality exists in GitReleaseNotes.

ghuntley avatar Nov 03 '16 22:11 ghuntley

@ghuntley yes, I like this idea. If you have a look at this blog post:

http://cakebuild.net/blog/2016/09/cake-v0-16-0-released

I have some working code to generate the list of contributors that you can see there. Adding that to an item in the release notes is "harder". An issue might have been created by one person, and fixed by another via a pull request. Stitching the two together is where it becomes hard. Not impossible, just not sure how much effort it will take.

The list of contributors is very simple to generate.

gep13 avatar Nov 04 '16 07:11 gep13

List of contributors, with a hyperlink to commits by author would suffice imho.

ghuntley avatar Nov 04 '16 08:11 ghuntley

@ghuntley yes, that sounds doable 😄

gep13 avatar Nov 04 '16 08:11 gep13

Some other ideas which are kinda glamourous :)

https://twitter.com/RobertWPearce/status/910978463586074625

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Why have a hyperlink when you can put someone's avatar in the release notes?

ghuntley avatar Sep 21 '17 22:09 ghuntley