Automatic releases and changelog updates

[aslafy-z]

I'd like to see automatic release and changelog updates in such a simple repository.
You can see an example implementation using semantic-release in this repository https://github.com/aslafy-z/helm-git. semantic-release also knowns how to maintain a CHANGELOG.md like you do in this repository.
There is also pre-packaged GitHub Actions to run, such as: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/action-for-semantic-release.
What do you think?

[rasheedamir]

@aslafy-z PR is welcome! Lets do it

[aslafy-z]

@mustafaStakater please have a look to semantic-release, it handles the full chain, no need to do any custom sauce :)

[mustafaStakater]

@aslafy-z okay ill take a look into it

[aslafy-z]

Also, semantic release uses conventional commits convention to define how to bump the semver.
In order for the full chain to be working correctly, we should enforce commit names. Either by enforcing on pr titles and enabling squash and merge strategy, or enforcing on all commits inside PRS and continue with classing merge strategy.

[aslafy-z]

@mustafaStakater any updates?

[mustafaStakater]

hello @aslafy-z, ill add it to sprint, and hopefully will be done within 2 or 3 weeks

[mustafaStakater]

hello @aslafy-z , would it be possible for you to take out time for this and generate a pr with the required changes.

accommodating this in our sprint is looking a little difficult for us.

Thanks

[rasheedamir]

@aslafy-z have you started working on it?

[aslafy-z]

Hey there, I had no time to work on this from now on.

As a first step, we must ensure that all new commits follows conventional commit so we can determine which part of the semver to bump on push to master.
If we're OK to squash merge all PRs in this repo, we can use this action that checks the PR titles: https://github.com/aslafy-z/conventional-pr-title-action (disclaimer: I'm the maintainer).

If we want to keep the ability to classic merge PRs, we can use some other like https://github.com/webiny/action-conventional-commits that scans the branch to check each commits names.

Let me know which route you prefer and I will soon open a PR for it.

[rasheedamir]

Sure @aslafy-z we can enforce squash-merge and nice github action! Let's proceed