Release Notes

A lightweight release notes UI to help users keep track of the ever-changing codebase for Kubernetes.

Development

Local requirements:

• node/npm
• golang > 1.11 (to run the release-notes JSON tool)
• go get k8s.io/release/cmd/release-notes (to generate any additional notes for development)

Run npm install && npm start from the root dir to start up the angular development server (on port 4200).

$ npm install
$ npm start
** Angular Live Development Server is listening on localhost:4200, open your browser on http://localhost:4200/ **

Any changes made to the front-end code (under src/) will automatically be reflected.

Build

To build and run the container container:

$ npm run docker:build:run

It will kick off a multi-stage docker build to handle building the angular code and dumping it in a nginx container.

Once complete, you can view it by going to localhost in your browser:

FAQ

Why?

Release notes can and should be better. Empowering end-users to view what they need, while also being able to highlight important info, is our goal.

It does involve some engineering effort, but this is a case where technology can help us and we should not incur much technical debt.

Also it's cool.

Can this be used for other projects?

With some changes, this could become a generic tool. There are no immediate plans to do that though.

Roadmap

Some of these may be blocked by external dependencies (such as GitHub labels not existing)

In no particular order:

• Improved filtering and have selectable or/and logic.
• Generate Security Content from PRs with area/security.
• Generate Known Issues from issues with release milestones attached.
• Generate New Features from PRs with area/feature label, though no idea how to differentiate what's "new" yet.
• Create structure for Urgent Upgrade Notes that can be manually added to a generated release JSON file.
• Create labels and write handling for a potential area/dependency label to help generate External Dependencies.
• Add support for viewing "alpha" and "beta" release notes, though disabled by default.
• Highlight labels that are selected.
• Rewrite relationship between "options" and "notes"

Community, discussion, contribution, and support

Learn how to engage with the Kubernetes community on the community page.

You can reach the maintainers of this project at:

• Slack channel
• Mailing list

Code of conduct

Participation in the Kubernetes community is governed by the Kubernetes Code of Conduct.