Merge pull request #104 from datavisyn/vdelev_auto_releasenotes

generate release notes with github api

Author: dvvanessastoiber

.github/workflows/release-source.yml

@@ -223,38 +223,26 @@ jobs:
       - name: push all changes
         run: |
           git push origin release-"$RELEASE_VERSION"
-      - name: get latest release date
-        id: get-release-date
-        run: |
-          LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-                                      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" \
-                                      "https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository_owner }}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}/releases/latest")
-
-          LATEST_RELEASE_DATE=$(echo "$LATEST_RELEASE" | jq -r '.published_at')
-          
-          echo "RELEASE_DATE=$LATEST_RELEASE_DATE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
-      - name: fetch merged PRs since last release
-        id: fetch-prs
+      - name: Generate release notes
+        id: generate-release-notes
         run: |
-          PRS=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-                          -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" \
-                          -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
-                          "https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository_owner }}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}/pulls?state=closed&base=${{ github.ref_name }}&sort=updated&direction=desc")
+          response=$(curl -s -X POST \
+            -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" \
+            -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
+            https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository_owner }}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}/releases/generate-notes \
+            -d "$(jq -n --arg tag_name "${{ env.RELEASE_VERSION }}" \
+                  --arg target_commitish "${{ github.ref_name }}" \
+                  '{tag_name: $tag_name, target_commitish: $target_commitish}')")
+          
+          RELEASE_NOTES=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.body')
 
-          if echo "$PRS" | jq -e . > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-            PR_NOTES=$(echo "$PRS" | jq -r --arg since "$RELEASE_DATE" '.[] | select(.merged_at != null and .merged_at > $since) | "* \(.title) ([#\(.number)](\(.html_url)))"')
-          else
-            PR_NOTES="could not fetch release notes"
-          fi
-          echo "$PR_NOTES" > pr_notes.txt  
+          echo "$RELEASE_NOTES" > release_notes.txt  
 
       - name: create pr
-        id: create-pr
         run: |
-          PR_NOTES=$(cat pr_notes.txt)
-          PR_NOTES=$(printf "## What's changed\n\n%s" "$PR_NOTES")
-          # Create a pull request with release notes
+          PR_NOTES=$(cat release_notes.txt)
           curl -L \
             -X POST \
             -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
@@ -266,5 +254,4 @@ jobs:
                   --arg body "$PR_NOTES" \
                   --arg head "release-${{ env.RELEASE_VERSION }}" \
                   --arg base "${{ inputs.base_branch }}" \
-                  --argjson draft false \
-                  '{title: $title, body: $body, head: $head, base: $base, draft: $draft}')"
+                  '{title: $title, body: $body, head: $head, base: $base}')"