capistrano / rails

Official Ruby on Rails specific tasks for Capistrano
http://www.capistranorb.com/
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Maintain release notes using GitHub Actions #243

Closed mattbrictson closed 4 years ago

mattbrictson commented 4 years ago

This PR sets up a GitHub Actions workflow that uses Release Drafter to automatically maintain release notes on every push to master.

In practice this means that contributors no longer have to manually update the CHANGELOG, which is something that is easy to forget and often introduces tedious merge conflicts.

Instead, Release Drafter automatically adds the title of the PR to the GitHub release notes to a draft release, crediting the author of the PR, and linking to the PR number. Release Drafter furthermore organizes the release notes into sections according to the labels assigned to the PRs:

This also simplifies the release process for maintainers: instead of manually updating the CHANGELOG, all you have to do is press "publish" on the release draft on GitHub.

This brings capistrano-rails into parity with the configuration of the main capistrano project.