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[COMMUNITY] Auto generate CHANGELOG, including adding contributors for each release
It would be nice to automatically thank community contributors by referencing them in the CHANGELOG.md for the release.
There's a number of engsys projects to allow this to happen such as https://github.com/marketplace/actions/auto-add-contributors.
Here is a screen shot of AWS MCP server which does this, and I quite like having the shout out for the community members who are helping the product for free.
https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/releases/tag/2025.6.2025052005
On top of the this we should also look to automatically generate the changelog file for a release so that we can avoid constant conflicts from people editing the changelog manually.
We should consider some convention for commit messages so that we can auto-generate using a tool like https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff
+1. It is painful to get new PRs merged due to this. Since CHANGELOG is a common file required currently, new PRs would need rebase everytime another PR is merged.
