feature: Collapsible categories

In some releases our “dependencies” category is huge because of many JS dependencies. It would be nice if there would be an option to make some categories collapsed by default.

Example config:

categories:
  - title: "New features"
    labels:
      - "new-feature"
  - title: "Dependency updates"
    collapsed: true
    labels:
      - "dependencies"

Example output:

What’s changed

New features

• pr1 Added a collapsed boolean to category config

Dependency updates

4 changes

• pr2 Bump dep1 from 6.17.9 to 6.18.0
• pr3 Bump dep1 from 6.18.0 to 6.18.1
• pr4 Bump dep1 from 6.18.1 to 6.18.2
• pr5 Bump dep1 from 6.18.2 to 6.18.3

Is this something you would be willing to accept as an PR?

[robbinjanssen]

last but not least (and then let’s stop harassing this issue 😂 ), one more idea.

We have a global definition of sort-by and sort-direction, I would like to suggest an override possibility per category.

For example:

name-template: 'v$RESOLVED_VERSION'
tag-template: 'v$RESOLVED_VERSION'
change-template: '- [#$NUMBER] $TITLE [@$AUTHOR](https://github.com/$AUTHOR)'
sort-by: merged_at
sort-direction: ascending

categories:
  - title: "✨ New features"
    labels:
      - "new-feature"
  - title: "⬆️  Dependency updates"
    collapse-after: 1
    sort-by: title
    labels:
      - "dependencies"

[jetersen]

@robbinjanssen see https://github.com/release-drafter/release-drafter/issues/706