+1 from my side. Thanks for driving on this aleks. it would be great to get this standardization and automation in place.
Ed On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:53 AM Aleksandar Vidakovic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > ... as you know we already have some rules in place to ensure that we have > a somewhat uniform process concerning pull requests etc. (e. g. PR title > starts with Jira issue number, squashing before merging is imperative etc.). > > I would really like to go a step beyond that and try to "standardize" our > commit messages even more. What I mean with that can be seen here: > https://www.conventionalcommits.org/ > > The goal would be to create git messages that we can actually include in a > changelog (for release announcements, changelog file in git repo etc.) > without manually intervention (or at least not much). Those messages - > ideally - would also contain more context than just simple copy and pasting > the Github commit template, e. g. we could inform about backwards > incompatibilities, references to other PRs etc. etc. I think this would > require only minimal additional effort of each PR author. > > Example: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md > > Also opened a Jira ticket in case you want to comment there: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-1527 > > Cheers, > > Aleks > -- *Ed Cable* President/CEO, Mifos Initiative [email protected] | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
