release-drafter VS semver

For releasing or publishing our code automatically, we will use the action Release Drafter

New release drafts are triggered after every commit is pushed to the main staging build. The drafted release (built with release drafter) will contain all the commits added since the previous release and a suggested new version which will follow the Semantic Versioning rules.

I am thinking I would have to create a GitHub release manually and then have a workflow listening on the "Release created" event, which would pull the image with the correct commit sha, tag it with the proper version and push it. Or using something like Release Drafter with a PR-based Git flow.

During 2021, we worked hard to improve it furthermore and add new functionality. We just released the latest version of cookietemple. It now includes (beside other templates for example an advanced C++ template or a Java CLI template) a modern python template using poetry, nox (nox-poetry), automatic docs setup as well as many cool and modern GitHub actions, like ReleaseDrafter (https://github.com/release-drafter/release-drafter).

Every commit pushed to the main branch will trigger a staging build. In addition to this, every commit pushed to the main branch will draft a new release on GitHub with the help of the release drafter.

We are always actively working on the configuration for Renovate and will continue to fine-tune it. Having pull requests created for every upstream version change will also optimise the generation of automated changelogs (using the excellent Release Drafter GitHub Action we were already using on Lagoon).

I wanted to provide a way to be able to easily create release notes, to enhance transparency on what we are delivering. I chose to use a tool called Release Drafter in our workflow. I wanted to configure how labels would be used in every repository, and for that, we standardised all labels across all repositories. I use: docs, dependencies, bug, feature, and maintenance.

release-drafter / release-drafter

Following the Semantic Versioning rules, you should raise the version number every time you need to publish your library. In your "package.json" file, you need to change the version number to reflect whether the changes are major, minor, or patch updates.

Semantic Versioning: An established convention for version numbers following the pattern MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

Increases the major of the latest tag and prints it As per the Semver spec, it'll also clear the pre-release…

The reason for this is that software libraries and package managers, in general, but specifically here, rely on semantic versioning. Semantic versioning is really useful for distributing packages in a predictable way. What does this look like for our project?

For a more detailed and comprehensive guide on semantic versioning, visit https://semver.org

I believe neovim follows semantic versioning. https://semver.org/

Semver has been 2.0.0 for 10 years, look at the date of the assets. Multiple releases created today where none existed before. Not sure why someone is creating releases now, perhaps just some housekeeping/cleanup.

https://github.com/semver/semver/releases

All ELRS hardware will talk to all other ELRS hardware, including Radiomaster's ELRS transmitters and receivers. There are one or two exceptions from scummy companies that have been pilloried by the community, and you probably won't find them anymore. So long as the ELRS firmware running on both devices has the same major version number, you're good to go. ie. 3.3.1 will still talk to 3.0.1, but won't talk to 2.0.0. (The "major version" is the 1st number, the "minor version" is the 2nd number, and the "patch version" is the 3rd number. See Semantic Versioning for more info.)

If you're using semver, read the spec it's not overly long or hard to understand.

Semantic versioning actually has a clear rule about this: