Update & automate changelog

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• Get manual updates to change log up to date by AM 6/25/24
• Refactor guides repo to accomadate automated updates triggered in other repos
• Create change log package that can be reused on repos that release on tagged cadences
• Add automations to the following repos that create a PR to the guides repo on release of a new version
  • flatfile-node (@flatfile/api)
  • flatfile-core-libraries (flatfile, @flatfile/listener, @flatfile/javascript, @flatfile/react, @flatfile/angular, @flatfile/vue)
  • flatfile-plugins (all)
    Iterations:
• Update repos to trigger on release (instead of tag) and update for changelog 1.0.0
  • flatfile-node (@flatfile/api)
  • flatfile-core-libraries (flatfile, @flatfile/listener, @flatfile/javascript, @flatfile/react, @flatfile/angular, @flatfile/vue)
  • flatfile-plugins (all)
• Spaces-UI and Dashboard automations

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WIP refactoring how the change log is structured in the guides repo.
This piece of work is needed to allow other automations to send easy, incremental updates & the guides repo will know how to handle them.

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WIP change log package that intakes tags and creates a pr to the guides repo.

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Here's a lil sketch of the automation as it stands to go in. Just for this week I'm sure we can improve. Feedback very welcome @bangarang @NateFerrero!

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These two PRs on the guides repo should go in for a full e2e test:

#1161 (First action on guides in diagram)
#1168 (Second action on guides diagram)

When they go in I'll make and post a loom of the process!

TL:DR on process is that any repo with the changelog package installed/configured will, upon releasing a new package (eg @flatfile/react@8.0.0) will trigger these actions and create a PR in the guides repo. That PR still needs to be reviewed by a human before going in (we all agreed, cause hallucinations suck!) then it merged and goes live!

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npm/cli#2610 Is unfortunately causing issues for e2e since these actions run in actions.

ToDos to fix:

• Release package somewhere or use ssh credentials
• Bundle to support cjs and es
• Use github bot for release

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Apologies this slipped a day but everything is going out today!
Update:

• Opening PRs to install on automations on the three repos mentioned above now
• With ^^ installed changelog prs to guides will be automated.
• They will require human review/approval to merge but that's a deliberate decision and the turnaround on those will be very short.

Remaining automation:

• Front end (spaces, dash) automation -> we'll need a slight modification for these untagged updates

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Home stretch, just need someone with permission to add environment variables to these prs and approve.
Once merged automation on tagged releases should be completed!

FlatFilers/flatfile-plugins#549
FlatFilers/flatfile-core-libraries#140
FlatFilers/flatfile-node#47

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Major release of changelog package to accommodate using commit diffs as well as tags went in, so we're on changelog 1.0.0 now.

Updates to tagged repos:

FlatFilers/flatfile-node#49
FlatFilers/flatfile-plugins#558
FlatFilers/flatfile-core-libraries#152

And PR for spaces-ui and dashboard automation:

https://github.com/FlatFilers/Platform/pull/7779

That's everything for basic functionality!

I'll be updating the https://github.com/FlatFilers/changelog repo will issues for next steps - we're going to make a slack channel to notify all contributors with easy actions they can take to approve, edit, dismiss the summaries.