(Discussion) Use 'conventionalcommits' preset instead of 'angular' to support custom changelog sections

Hi Mathieu,

I’m working on a fix for https://github.com/mathieudutour/github-tag-action/issues/54. I’ve mentioned why this is closed but not fixed in this comment.

So, before creating a PR for this, I just wanted to get your feedback beforehand on the approach that I’m taking.

Here’s what I’m doing to fix this:

• Currently, the default preset used to generateNotes is conventional-changelog-angular which doesn’t support custom changelog sections but conventionalcommits does. (Reference: https://github.com/semantic-release/release-notes-generator/issues/153). I’m more inclined to using the preset instead of copying & pasting the transform function and modifying it to fit the use case.

https://github.com/mathieudutour/github-tag-action/blob/5961cf9c4dfdab0d0ca4bab9f1d2403960331ef8/src/action.ts#L148-L149

• Right now, custom_release_rules supports <keyword>:<release_type>. I’m thinking of adding another section to this that mentions the changelog section/title the commits in this group should persist in. i.e. <keyword>:<release_type>:<changelog_section> Any support for gitmoji in the changelog section/title will already be supported after https://github.com/mathieudutour/github-tag-action/issues/67 is fixed.

• This last/new section will be optional whose default value will be what’s used on conventional-changelog-angular. Any rules the user provides will override the rule, if it exists in the default rule else gets added with the default rule.

You can find my latest changes for this here

Let me know what you think

[mathieudutour]

That makes sense to me 👍

We can discuss the implementation details in the PR

[jeremybdk]

@koiralakiran1 Sorry I missed that part, where I needed to include the changelog section, again thank you very much for your work!