feat: create a GitHub discussion via API flag if a discussion category name was provided

Author: gkatsev

packages/conventional-github-releaser/README.md

@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ Default: `1`
 
 How many releases of changelog you want to generate. It counts from the latest semver tag. Useful when you forgot to generate any previous releases. Set to `0` to regenerate all.
 
+#### discussion
+
+Default: unset
+
+The discussion category name, which when given, will have GitHub automatically create a discussion in this category from the release.
+
 ##### name
 
 Default: same as version tag

packages/conventional-github-releaser/src/cli.js

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ const cli = meow({
                                 If 0, the whole changelog will be regenerated and the outfile will be overwritten
                                 Default: 1
 
+      -d, --discussion          The discussion category name, which when given, will have GitHub automatically create a discussion in this category from the release.
+                                Default: not set
+
       -v, --verbose             Verbose output. Use this for debugging
                                 Default: false
 
@@ -63,6 +66,10 @@ const cli = meow({
       default: 1,
       type: 'number'
     },
+    discussion: {
+      alias: 'd',
+      type: 'string'
+    },
     verbose: {
       alias: 'v',
       default: false,
@@ -123,6 +130,7 @@ const changelogOpts = {
     path: flags.pkg
   },
   releaseCount: flags.releaseCount,
+  discussion: flags.discussion,
   draft: flags.draft
 }
 

packages/conventional-github-releaser/src/index.js

@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ function conventionalGithubReleaser (auth, changelogOpts, context, gitRawCommits
               target_commitish: changelogOpts.targetCommitish
             }
           }
+          if (changelogOpts.discussion) {
+            debug(`discussions enabled`, changelogOpts.discussion)
+            options.body.discussion_category_name = changelogOpts.discussion
+          }
           debug(`posting %o to the following URL - ${url}`, options)
 
           // Set auth after debug output so that we don't print auth token to console.