lint-release-notes

GitHub Action Lint Release Notes

Description

Github action that lints release notes. It generates release notes using semantic-release and posts them as a comment in a pull request with the changes that would be included in the next version of the codebase if the pull request is merged. It also will fail if there are breaking changes and no v<major-version>.md doc has been created.

Configuration

Step1: Set any Semantic Release Configuration in your repository.

Step2: Add Secrets in your repository for the Semantic Release Authentication Environment Variables.

Step3: Add a Workflow File to your repository to create custom automated processes.

Usage

name: Release notes preview

on:
  # It's import that this runs on the push event, as semantic release will not run on pull_request events
  push:
    branches-ignore:
      - main

jobs:
  lint-release-notes:
    name: Lint release notes
    steps:
      - uses: open-turo/actions-release/lint-release-notes@v4
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Notes

• By default, this action will perform actions/checkout as its first step.

Inputs

parameter	description	required	default
checkout-repo	Perform checkout as first step of action	false	true
github-token	GitHub token that can checkout the repository as well as create tags/releases against it. e.g. 'secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN'	true	${{ github.token }}
enforce-breaking-changes-docs	Ensure that an appropriate v<major-version>.md doc has been created if there are breaking changes in the PR.	false	true
extra-plugins	Extra plugins for pre-install. You can also specify specifying version range for the extra plugins if you prefer. Defaults to install @open-turo/semantic-release-config.	false	@open-turo/semantic-release-config
semantic-version	Specify what version of semantic release to use	false

Runs

This action is a composite action.