Add a Changelog file to the repo to enable native Changelog view in VS Code

[lumaxis]

VS Code powers it's integrated Changelog view based on a CHANGELOG.md file, placed at the root of the project's folder. See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/publish-extension#_marketplace-integration for details.

It would be great to add this to allow people to see what changed in a new version of this extension right from VS Code! 👍

[jeffyoung]

Good idea @lumaxis.

Maybe something generated with a tool like github-changelog-generator. Although it'd be great if it was something I could put right into my gulp build (via npm).

[lumaxis]

@jeffyoung How do you currently create the GitHub releases? Maybe working the other way around and auto-creating those from a Changelog file would be an easier solution. Maybe using something like https://github.com/MoOx/github-release-from-changelog?

[jeffyoung]

I currently do it manually. I keep track of the "Release Notes" myself (since I don't want all of the commits showing up there (or in a CHANGELOG file)) and once I get the VSIX file ready to upload to the marketplace, I create the release in GitHub. Since I have the vsix file ready, I can just drag-and-drop it right into the Release so it's available there (mostly for historical purposes).

[jeffyoung]

I went ahead and created this (although I'll have to do it manually for now). Thanks for the suggestion @lumaxis.

[lumaxis]

Thank you 🙏

[lumaxis]

It's beautiful! 🙂