GarciaPL Notes - Java and Others

If your JIRA does not support generating release notes because of for instance you do not fulfil Version field like in my case, there is a way to generate it based on git commit history.

First of all, you need to install a package called git-release-notes [2] via npm. It will allow you to generate release note page from git commit history using the following command :

git-release-notes 2.2.2..HEAD markdown.ejs > changelog.md

Of course, 2.2.2 is a git tag.

You might also use mentioned above template called markdown.ejs which has been written in EJS [3]. In my opinion, this template gives more control in terms how release notes will look like at the end. Of course, you might also depend on built-in template into git-release-notes module.

<% commits.forEach(function (commit) { %>
    <% if(!commit.title.startsWith('[maven-release-plugin]')) { %>
        <%= 'http://jira.com/browse/' + commit.title -%>
    <% } %>
<% }) %>