git-chglog VS semantic-release

Currently, we are working on an internal refactoring to clean up code from the past years, even before we started the maintainership. Due to the upgrade to terraform-sdk-v2, we have new abilities for logging, debugging, and testing in isolation. Also, tools for the generation of documentation will simplify the process and keep it up-to-date. But first of all, we want to fix the reported bugs and clarify if they are still present after the update. We also plan to add support for running docker behind a jump host and provision docker containers. Our most aspiring goal is to come close to the docker CLI as possible. To achieve this, we plan to review which code we can reuse and integrate. For example, this has already been happened in the past to allow the converging possibility for docker services. We plan to add the generation of the changelog as we enforce already conventional commits from angular. After talking about the path towards milestone 3.0, we wrap it up with the conclusion.

Using Conventional Commits ⭐ as a standard for your commit messages, makes Semantic Versioning 🔖 as easy as can be, with tools like Conventional Changelog 📄 Standard Version 🔖 and Semantic Release 📦🚀

Auto-tagging a project, Renovate or Dependabot can do this. With a Git Workflow and another tool like semantic-release you can do this. This behavior is a “gymnastic” to do on the CI/CD of your project but it’s not complicated. For example with GitLab CI, you can verify the pipeline run on the default branch of your project :

I'm trying to improve the security behind our release process, which uses semantic-release. During this process, it creates a change log which is committed to the repo, publishes a package and a few other things.

Conventional commits specification contains a set of rules for creating an explicit commit history, which makes it easier to write automated tools on top of, for example, semantic release. You can manually follow this convention in your project or use a tool to assist you, such as Commitizen.

When working with JavaScript projects, managing version numbers and commit messages is important for the maintainability of the project. Since 2020 I have been the main developer of Atomic Calendar Revive a highly customisable Home Assistant calendar card, I found maintaining versions and releases to be cumbersome until recently. In this article, I will introduce the commitizen and semantic-release packages for creation or appropriate commit messages and semantic versioning. I will also provide examples of how I am currently using these packages to streamline my release workflow and project maintenance.

To further streamline deployments, I introduced semantic-release. This tool automates commit tagging and tracks changes since the previous version. As a result, deployments now occur only when new tags are present, saving us valuable minutes.