exec VS conventional-changelog

@semantic-release/exec - used to set GitHub action environment variables when run as from docker container and GitHub action outputs when run as a marketplace action

This meant that forcing a major tag update with @semantic-release/exec as part of the release process was possible, but would result in the major tag (for example v3) linking to a valid repository commit SHA that is not actually released in the marketplace.

This article introduces semantic-release as a solution. It automates the release process, and its exec plugin helps us to run @vercel/ncc before the release automatically.

You may need a minor tweak up. For example, push some pkg to both public and internal registries. Ooops. "...publishing to two different registry is not a good idea". In this case you can not rely on stable, convenient and tested in millions runs semrel/npm plugin, and you have to just write a pair of commands by hand with semantic-release/exec instead:

conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits is a package used for creating conventional commits and has a bit more configuration possibilities with changelogs in contrast to the default Angular commit scheme.

Finally, it is also interesting to be able to automatically generate the CHANGELOG file from the commit messages. There are various tools for this, one of them is Conventional Changelog

Some projects generate change logs automatically from commits. For example, angular uses conventional-changelog.

I'm under the understanding from this issue that in semver, a package that is <1.0.0 is considered unstable. This means that a breaking change can occur at any version, usually between minors.

conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits

[1] - https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-chang...

I dont use myself, but some people follows something like the conventional commit spec, and then uses a generator.

@semantic-release/commit-analyzer It determines the type of our release (e.g. major, minor, patch) by analyzing commits with conventional-changelog. semantic-release uses Angular Commit Message Conventions by default.