Mattermost-server: Auto generate plugin changelog using goreleaser

[mattermod]

Use https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser to auto generate plugin changelog in the circleci orb. The generated changelog should be used as the body of the GitHub release. See https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-github/releases/tag/v0.12.0 for en example changelog.

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JIRA: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-19848

[RajatVaryani]

@hanzei I would like to work on this.

[hanzei]

Thanks @RajatVaryani

[RajatVaryani]

Hello @hanzei. Can you please put some light on how you generated this changelog?

I explored goreleaser but could not find a straightforward way to do that. Also, how did it group commit messages by enhancements and fixes? Are we using some sort of conventions like this?

[hanzei]

Goreleaser generated a changelog under dist/CHANGELOG.md that should be used. It's only a list of the commit messages, but that's fine.

[RajatVaryani]

@hanzei Why not use a tool whose primary aim is to generate changelog? e.g conventional-changelog. This is based on https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/#summary.

This is how it will look like:

[hanzei]

@RajatVaryani I have a person aversion to js cli tools. :wink:

But that is not a real reason to not use any of these tools.

What I want is a tool that:

1. Can be easily run in CLI
2. Can be updated the the lastest version safely
3. Won't break in the future on language updates
4. (Optional) Easy configuration and templating

I'm concerned that 3. will be an issue for js cli tools. Let me know what you think. I'm not hard convinced about goreleaser and open for other suggestion.

[RajatVaryani]

@hanzei. I don't have first hand experience with JS so I will defer (But I have heard the same things) and go ahead with goreleaser.

[RajatVaryani]

@hanzei I reached out to goreleaser community and I got to know that they generate changelog just using simple git commands internally.

git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --no-decorate --no-color (git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD

This is the command used to generate the changelog with some modification. I think we can generate this changelog in the pipeline itself (or a simple bash script if required). What do you think?

[hanzei]

Plain git commands seam much better then my idea. :+1:

[RajatVaryani]

@hanzei I will be closing this and https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/13586 in this week.

[hanzei]

@RajatVaryani Awesome, looking forward to it.