Crate release automation

[carllerche]

Tokio consists of many small, decoupled crates (a crate is a Rust library package). Releasing changes has become a manual and error prone process. The goal of the project is to build a set of tools to automate crate releases such that the entire flow can be done via the GitHub issue tracker.

Expected outcomes

• Changelog entries are generated based off of data in PRs including title and labels.
• Crates are released on a weekly (configurable) basis.
• A bot opens a PR for the release
• When the release PR is merged, the crate is pushed to crates.io.
• A Github status check is used to ensure that PRs include enough data to generate a changelog entry.
• An automated GitHub action that merges master into PRs when there are no merge conflicts.

Skills

• GitHub
• TravisCI
• Bash

Difficulty level

Easy

[carllerche]

A large part of this will be continuing the shipit CLI tool: https://github.com/carllerche/shipit

Some design thoughts here: https://github.com/carllerche/shipit/pull/1