Tweak automatic release notes #40651
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When drafting github releases, there is an option to automatically generate a list of changes based on merged PR titles. For now we simply exclude dependabot PRs, but in the future we might want to use labels to further optimise the automatic release notes usefulness. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Schwender <schwenderjonathan@gmail.com>
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I assume that the notation is correct for the bot author name. Reading the docs, that's not 100% clear to me, but let's try it out and see?
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Co-authored-by: Josh Matthews <josh@joshmatthews.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Schwender <55576758+jschwe@users.noreply.github.com>
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@TimvdLippe This is how a dependabot change looks like without this PR in the release notes, so that's what I based the name on:
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When drafting github releases, there is an option
to automatically generate a list of changes based on merged PR titles.
For now we simply exclude dependabot PRs, but in the future we might want to use labels to further optimise the automatic release notes usefulness.
Documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes#configuring-automatically-generated-release-notes
Testing: Not tested, no impact on servo itself.