Joi: Add Changelog

[RicardoGeek]

Can you please add a changelog file to the project?

Thanks.

[WesTyler]

All semver major releases have Release Notes found here.

[AdriVanHoudt]

All the other changes can be found here https://github.com/hapijs/joi/commits/master since there aren't too many commits is quite easy to scan through
or you can do https://github.com/hapijs/joi/compare/v10.5.2...v10.6.0

[yvele]

@WesTyler @AdrieanKhisbe why don't you explain that directly in a changelog.md ?

Because many users are expecting a changelog.md, a history.md or GitHub release descriptions, See https://github.com/hapijs/joi/issues/289, https://github.com/hapijs/joi/issues/630, https://github.com/hapijs/joi/issues/673 and https://github.com/hapijs/joi/issues/1297

[Marsup]

This only proves that people don't know how to search issues. But I'd be willing to add that if it helps with that confusion.

[yvele]

@Marsup when you have hundreds of dependencies to manage and update, it is very convenient to check for a changelog or even better, for GitHub release description

By the way, why don't you juste copy/paste this issue (with a release description) into that (you can copy the exact same markdown) ?

Most of JavaScript projects on GitHub are using this technique..

And isn't issues meant to be different that a release description (or milestone)?

[DavidTPate]

This only proves that people don't know how to search issues.

@Marsup I think a simple thing would be to include just a link to the issue that relates to those particular release notes. Personally I usually just use changelog on NPM to gather a quick list of the recent commits with links to the PRs. Something like that to copy/paste in release notes (or a file of some sort) might be easy to do and useful.

[AdriVanHoudt]

@DavidTPate that is an amazing tip :O

[Marsup]

I'll check, could it be automated on npm version?

[DavidTPate]

@Marsup With some coding support I could definitely see it being able to be done in a single command in an automated fashion. I've personally been looking at moving over to https://www.npmjs.com/package/unleash from Netflix instead.

[Marsup]

I dislike semantic commits quite a lot, not sure if something will ever change my mind about it.