Question: How to configure "angular" preset to print docs, style, etc.

Hi guys, i made a lot of research and even sniffed the repositories to find a proper solution but it doesn’t work out for me. Therefore i decided to ask here for help.

My goal is to generateNotes even for commits prefixed with docs:, style:, ci:, etc. Right now only fix:, feat: and breacking change are printed to CHANGELOG.md and GitHub releases.

My configuration looks like this:

{
    "release": {
        "verifyConditions": [
            "@semantic-release/changelog",
            "@semantic-release/github"
        ],
        "analyzeCommits": {
            "preset": "angular",
            "releaseRules": [
                {
                    "type": "docs",
                    "release": "patch"
                },
                {
                    "type": "refactor",
                    "release": "patch"
                },
                {
                    "type": "style",
                    "release": "patch"
                }
            ]
        },
        "generateNotes": {
            "preset": "angular"
        },
        "prepare": [
            "@semantic-release/changelog",
            "@semantic-release/git"
        ],
        "publish": [
            "@semantic-release/github"
        ]
    }
}

I know that angular is the default preset for generateNotes but i added it to be explicit for everyone.

I appreciate every single hint, link or solution snippet.

Thanks in advance.

[MaiKaY]

Hi @damianopetrungaro, thanks a lot for your answer!

I my point of view the issue is at this specific point: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/blob/master/packages/conventional-changelog-angular/writer-opts.js#L44-L45

I now created a release.config.js in my project(s) with the following writerOpts.transform:

'transform': (commit, context) => {
    if (commit.type === 'feat') {
        commit.type = 'Features';
    } else if (commit.type === 'fix') {
        commit.type = 'Bug Fixes';
    } else if (commit.type === 'perf') {
        commit.type = 'Performance Improvements';
    } else if (commit.type === 'revert') {
        commit.type = 'Reverts';
    } else if (commit.type === 'docs') {
        commit.type = 'Documentation';
    } else if (commit.type === 'style') {
        commit.type = 'Styles';
    } else if (commit.type === 'refactor') {
        commit.type = 'Code Refactoring';
    } else if (commit.type === 'test') {
        commit.type = 'Tests';
    } else if (commit.type === 'build') {
        commit.type = 'Build System';
    } else if (commit.type === 'ci') {
        commit.type = 'Continuous Integration';
    } else if (commit.type === 'chore') {
        commit.type = 'Chores';
    } else {
        return;
    }

    [...]

    return commit
}

This works perfectly. The only thing what i did was to remove the line mentioned above.

[elizabethsjudd]

We’ve ran in to this same issue as well and have also copy and pasted the transform function in to our config. It’d be really nice to have a flag or something to turn off that one specific else if given everything else is exactly the same.