Link to CHANGELOG.md on Releases page

1. Visit https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/releases
2. See nothing useful
3. Navigate to https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md because thats there the changelog is kept

We can send a HEAD request to $default/CHANGELOG.md and link to it if it exists when visiting a releases page, perhaps just if the page doesn’t have releases.

The unfortunate part is that the HTTP request is case-sensitive, so with this method we can only check and link to that specific but common format.

[cheap-glitch]

Could we use the GraphQL Search API to find files case-insensitively?

I don’t think you can search for files or code using the GraphQL API (supported search types are only “ISSUE”, “USER” and “REPO”). But we could do something like this:

query { 
  repository(owner: "<owner>" name: "<name>") {
    lowercase: object(expression: "HEAD:changelog.md") {
      ...on Blob {
        oid
      }
    }
    uppercase: object(expression: "HEAD:CHANGELOG.md") {
      ...on Blob {
        oid
      }
    }
  }
}

or query all the top-level files and check if there’s a changelog among them:

query { 
  repository(owner: "<owner>" name: "<name>") {
    object(expression: "HEAD:") {
      ...on Tree {
        entries {
          name
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

[tooomm]

This is normal, the changelog file of this repo is named CHANGES so it isn’t supported yet. That’s what the new, unreleased PR is about.

My bad, mixed it up with the linked new PR above my comment which has those examples linked. I randomly picked one of those.

It works now at pyca again after trying several times. Still not at nodeca. After trying like 5+ more times… it appears now at e.g. https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml/releases, too. 🤷

After clearing the extension cache, the working one for pyca disappeared as well after refreshing the site.

I can’t reproduce this no matter how I try. Could this be an issue with your personal token? Did you enable all the scopes?

I’ve no personal token setup! How should I know - as a user - that I have to and which of the many features require it? Settings only tell me it’s optional. And the linked GitHub search is not really user friendly. A detailed search there reveals that link-to-changelog-file.tsx is listed though. Not intuitive at all to connect the dots here. That’s a different issue I guess.

No clue why it starts working after many tries - even with no token setup?!

Related messages in web console are:

Content Security Policy: The page's settings blocked the loading of a resource at data: ("media-src").
ℹ️ Refined GitHub → convert-release-to-draft → Personal token required for this feature index.tsx:54:10
ℹ️ Refined GitHub → bugs-tab → Personal token required for this feature index.tsx:54:10
ℹ️ Refined GitHub → repo-wide-file-finder → Personal token required for this feature index.tsx:54:10

Nothing mentioned about “link to changelog”.