Generate Release Notes XPlatform plugin fails because of an item limit

[ghost]

Azure DevOps Extension you are using

Generate Release Notes XPlatform

Where are you running it?

• Azure DevOps Service (VSTS)

Version of Extension/Task

2.9.6.

Expected behaviour and actual behaviour

Expected behaviour:
The plugin either generates a release note with the maximum amount of work items or retrieves them in multiple steps.

Actual behaviour:
2019-06-12T07:00:54.5966755Z ##[section]Starting: Generate Release Notes based on Release Comparision API
2019-06-12T07:00:54.7262502Z ==============================================================================
2019-06-12T07:00:54.7263107Z Task : Generate Release Notes XPlatform
2019-06-12T07:00:54.7263517Z Description : Generates a release notes file in a format of your choice from the release history
2019-06-12T07:00:54.7263916Z Version : 2.9.6
2019-06-12T07:00:54.7264263Z Author : Black Marble
2019-06-12T07:00:54.7264695Z Help : Version: 2.9.6. More Information
2019-06-12T07:00:54.7265185Z ==============================================================================
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5345058Z Getting the current release details
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5362945Z Getting the Environment Id
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5369991Z Identified [📄 generate release notes] as having id [43]
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5370429Z Getting all artifacts in the current release...
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5370990Z Found 1
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5396420Z Getting all artifacts in the most recent successful release [BatchedCI-Staging-B9488-R1]...
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5397054Z Found 1
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5397608Z Looking at artifact [exchange]
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5398067Z Artifact type [Build]
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5398526Z Build Definition ID [8]
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5399007Z Build Number: [BatchedCI-Staging-B10383]
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5399558Z Looking for the [exchange] in the most recent successful release [BatchedCI-Staging-B9488-R1]
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5400102Z Found artifact [exchange] with build number [BatchedCI-Staging-B9488] in release [BatchedCI-Staging-B9488-R1]
2019-06-12T07:00:56.5400631Z Checking what commits and workitems have changed from [BatchedCI-Staging-B9488] => [BatchedCI-Staging-B10383]
2019-06-12T07:00:57.5233038Z Detected 197 commits/changesets and 313 workitems between the builds.
2019-06-12T07:00:57.5233437Z
2019-06-12T07:00:57.5278818Z Expanding the truncated commit messages...
2019-06-12T07:01:08.4692578Z Finished expanding [120] commits.
2019-06-12T07:01:08.6086818Z ##[error]Error: VS403474: You requested 313 work items which exceeds the limit of 200
2019-06-12T07:01:08.6589114Z ##[error]Error: VS403474: You requested 313 work items which exceeds the limit of 200
2019-06-12T07:01:08.6637801Z ##[section]Finishing: Generate Release Notes based on Release Comparision API

Steps to reproduce the problem

Don't run the plugin for month...
For real: Try to let it generate release notes for more than 200 work items.

[rfennell]

This is a duplicated of #349 and there is a fix already in place, but it is a little hard to fix

You need to set release variables ReleaseNotes.Fix349.MaxCommits and ReleaseNotes.Fix349.MaxCommits to a number bigger than 300. This switches to other (slower API) calls that bypass the limitation

[ghost]

Well I am glad there is a fix available, but you pasted the same variable twice.
Setting that one to 500 didn't fix the problem for me and I can't find your solution in neither #349 nor #352 .

[rfennell]

Sorry so I did make a mistake there. The line of code of interest is Ln 122 in GenerateReleaseNotes.ts with related logic here

• To enable the fix set variable ReleaseNotes.Fix349 to true
• The max items are then ReleaseNotes.Fix349.MaxCommits & ReleaseNotes.Fix349.MaxWorkItems

Let me know how it goes

[rfennell]

Sorry so I did make a mistake there. The line of code of interest is Ln 122 in GenerateReleaseNotes.ts with related logic here

• To enable the fix set variable ReleaseNotes.Fix349 to true
• The max items are then ReleaseNotes.Fix349.MaxCommits & ReleaseNotes.Fix349.MaxWorkItems

Let me know how it goes

[ghost]

Worked like a charm.
Thank you very much.