feat: implement automatic contributor recognition in CHANGELOG for releases #425
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This PR implements automatic contributor recognition in the CHANGELOG.md file for each release, addressing the community request to thank contributors similar to the AWS MCP server approach.
What's Changed
🚀 Automatic Contributor Recognition
📝 Manual Changelog Generation
⚙️ Configuration & Documentation
cliff.toml
) tailored for the Microsoft MCP repositoryIntegration Benefits
This seamlessly integrates with the existing Azure DevOps release pipeline without requiring any changes. When the pipeline calls
gh release create
, the GitHub webhook automatically triggers the contributor update workflow.The implementation also addresses the merge conflict problem mentioned in the issue comments by automating changelog generation, eliminating the need for manual CHANGELOG.md editing.
Example Output
When a release is published, the CHANGELOG.md will be automatically updated with:
Conventional Commits Support
The system supports conventional commit prefixes for automatic categorization:
feat:
→ 🚀 Featuresfix:
→ 🐛 Bug Fixesdocs:
→ 📚 Documentationperf:
→ ⚡ PerformanceFixes #156.
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