Create changelog based on pull requests

[lalitkapoor]

I saw that you have a changelog on your site and thought you might find the following useful. It's a tool that generates a changelog based on merged pull requests (with some additional benefits - accreditation, linking to the issue, and automation).

you can find the tool here https://github.com/lalitkapoor/github-changes.

To install it:
npm install -g github-changes

This was the command used to generate the changelog for dustjs:
github-changes -o linkedin -r dustjs -d pulls -a -v

Please let me know If you need any help adding it to your release script. If there are any improvements you'd like to see in this tool please feel free to open an issue :) Thanks!

[prashn64]

This looks really good. Do people agree we can remove the need for the "linkedin additions" to this page:

http://linkedin.github.io/dustjs/

and then add this is a grunt task to the releases?

[kate2753]

I like the idea of integrating with grunt @prashn64 and removing that section from linkedin.gihutb.io. Less work and don't have to remember to keep it up to date.

I would love to see releases ordered by version number, not by the date they were released.
We've released few patches to 2.2.x recently and change log seems a bit confusing to me where 2.2.6 was the last release instead of 2.3.3

[lalitkapoor]

@kate2753 ah, you're right. I'll look into fixing that. Thanks for taking a look!

[jimmyhchan]

How stable is this? Any other repo using this? Can we pull in a grunt task
that wraps this instead?

It's just a dev dependency so not too big a deal big and very much better
then what we have now

[lalitkapoor]

@jimmyhchan it's not stable yet. I'm using this in a few places myself - most notable, currently, would be mikeal's request library - https://github.com/mikeal/request

I'm happy to actively maintain any code surround it here as I get the tool to a stable version.

Currently working on addressing the issue @kate2753 brought up. Will have a fix in soon.

[lalitkapoor]

ready for review.

new command (v0.0.8):
github-changes -o linkedin -r dustjs -a --only-pulls --use-commit-body --order-semver -v

[prashn64]

looks good