feat: add GitHub release config (#423)

* feat: add GitHub release config

Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <[email protected]>

* chore: use cog

Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <[email protected]>

Author: henryiii

.github/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+changelog:
+  exclude:
+    authors:
+      - dependabot
+      - pre-commit-ci

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -86,5 +86,5 @@ repos:
         name: Cog the pages
         language: python
         entry: cog -P -r -I ./helpers
-        files: "^docs/pages/guides/(packaging_compiled|docs|tasks).md|^copier.yml"
+        files: "^docs/pages/guides/(packaging_compiled|docs|tasks|gha_basic).md|^copier.yml"
         additional_dependencies: [cogapp, cookiecutter]

docs/pages/guides/gha_basic.md

@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ which consist of actions. Here are some of the workflows you will probably want
 in your package. These should be in a file named `.github/workflows/main.yml` or
 similar.
 
+<!-- [[[cog
+from cog_helpers import code_fence, render_cookie
+with render_cookie() as package:
+    github_release_yaml = package.joinpath(".github/release.yml").read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
+]]] -->
+<!-- [[[end]]] -->
+
 ## Header
 
 Your main CI workflow file should begin something like this:
@@ -710,3 +717,28 @@ everything in one job, you only need one of these.
 >
 > - [CLIUtils.github.io/CLI11](https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11/blob/main/.github/workflows/docs.yml)
 > - [iris-hep.org](https://github.com/iris-hep/iris-hep.github.io/blob/master/.github/workflows/deploy.yml)
+
+### Changelog generation
+
+Not directly part of Actions, but also in `.github` is `.github/release.yml`,
+which lets you [configure the changelog generation][gh-changelog] button when
+you make a release. The following config will remove dependabot and
+pre-commit-ci PRs for you:
+
+<!-- [[[cog
+with code_fence("yaml"):
+    print(github_release_yaml)
+]]] -->
+<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
+```yaml
+changelog:
+  exclude:
+    authors:
+      - dependabot
+      - pre-commit-ci
+```
+<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
+<!-- [[[end]]] -->
+
+[gh-changelog]:
+  https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes

{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/.github/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+changelog:
+  exclude:
+    authors:
+      - dependabot
+      - pre-commit-ci