(maint) Add commit summary check

This commit adds the `commits` rake task and runs it in the Static Code
Analysis workflow as a step.

Author: luchihoratiu

.github/workflows/static_code_analysis.yaml

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout current PR code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Install ruby version ${{ env.ruby_version }}
         uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
@@ -28,6 +30,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare testing environment with bundler
         run: bundle update --jobs 4 --retry 3
 
+      - name: Run commits check
+        run: bundle exec rake commits
+
       - name: Run rubocop check
         run: bundle exec rake ${{ env.extra_checks }} rubocop
 

Rakefile

@@ -85,3 +85,28 @@ EOM
   end
 end
 
+desc "verify that commit messages match CONTRIBUTING.md requirements"
+task(:commits) do
+  # This rake task looks at the summary from every commit from this branch not
+  # in the branch targeted for a PR.
+  commit_range = 'HEAD^..HEAD'
+  puts "Checking commits #{commit_range}"
+  %x{git log --no-merges --pretty=%s #{commit_range}}.each_line do |commit_summary|
+    # This regex tests for the currently supported commit summary tokens.
+    # The exception tries to explain it in more full.
+    if /^\((maint|packaging|doc|docs|modules-\d+)\)|revert/i.match(commit_summary).nil?
+      raise "\n\n\n\tThis commit summary didn't match CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines:\n" \
+        "\n\t\t#{commit_summary}\n" \
+        "\tThe commit summary (i.e. the first line of the commit message) should start with one of:\n"  \
+        "\t\t(MODULES-<digits>) # this is most common and should be a ticket at tickets.puppet.com\n" \
+        "\t\t(docs)\n" \
+        "\t\t(docs)(DOCUMENT-<digits>)\n" \
+        "\t\t(packaging)\n"
+        "\t\t(maint)\n" \
+        "\n\tThis test for the commit summary is case-insensitive.\n\n\n"
+    else
+      puts "#{commit_summary}"
+    end
+    puts "...passed"
+  end
+end