Use conventional commits and commit linter?

[janfb]

For previous releases we crafted the CHANGELOG.md by hand. For the upcoming release this is a lot of work. So I looked into automated tools and came across:

• https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/ and
• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint?tab=readme-ov-file

A commit message convention and a linter that checks commit messages 🚓

I really like the idea, most importantly because it supports automatic generation of CHANGELOGs and semantic versioning.

any thoughts?

[michaeldeistler]

Depends on how well it works I guess :) If it just copies PR descriptions (or commit titles) then I think the resulting CHANGELOG will not really helpful, but if it has some LLM to filter relevant content then it might be great.