Release Notes builder tool

Look at the commits on a github repo and generate release notes using the commits that have occurred since the last tag.

Basic Usage

Release Notes requires that you specify the organization or username and the repository name. It will then process commits to build release notes and a tag on the specificed respository. You will be prompted several options to change the output and determine how the tag will be generated.

$ bin/buildRelease organization-name repo-name

There are many command line argument options that can specified to allow for the tool to run with little to no interaction from the user. All options can be viewed by running the command with --help

$ bin/buildRelease --help

Github Integration

Github integration is done using a personal access token. This token will be requested when you run the tool the first time or you can provide the information on the command-line using --access-token argument option.

If you provide your token at the prompt of the tool it will store this token in a .access_token file. You can specify a different access token file with the --token-file argument option. The default location of this file can be changed with the --cache-dir argument option.

If you wish to use the tool with a differnt API version or a private GitHub Enterprise server then you can use --github-api argument option to change the base URL the tool uses for making API calls.

Jira Integration

Jira integration currently requires that you create a .env file that contains the server url, username, and password that you are accessing jira as.

Start by copying .env.dist to .env and modifying with your information.

Using the --jira-types and --jira-lookup argument options will attempt to find Jira issue numbers within the commit messages use for generating the notes and then query the server.