use {fledge} for release management

[lorenzwalthert]

Re: #977 (comment)

The problem I have with that approach is that I don't see from the documentation how you can make different sections in NEWS.md, which is recommended by the tidyverse style guide. Can you confirm that this is not possible or how to work around it @krlmlr?

[krlmlr]

We now support a subset of conventional commits, these are translated into sections.

[lorenzwalthert]

Ok, I could not find the relevant section in the docs... After looking at the docs for > 15 mins, I still don't feel like I know how it works (maybe just me, it's late?). I think the get started vignette and the README repeats itself a few times is not 100% clear with terminology, so I got a bit confused. Because after all it is not that complicated when I tried it out hands-on.

In particular, this section in the docs was confusing for me:

-> 'News is now composed' (wait, by finalize_version()) or by me previously?

-> 'If you add to edit'? I don't understand that sentence.

[krlmlr]

Thanks for your feedback. Would a video have helped?

To clarify:

• fledge expands NEWS.md, that's its purpose
• "add to edit" is a typo, should be "after you add to NEWS.md" or "after you edit NEWS.md" or similar

[lorenzwalthert]

Thanks.

fledge expands NEWS.md, that's its purpose

That was clear from the beginning for me, but not how it would do that, when/if it would overwrite my manual edits etc, that I can't have an up to date NEWS.md unless you make a new release with bump_version() (because in this repo, NEWS.md is always up to date).

Yes, a video would definitively have helped, if I understand correctly, all I need to know to make it work is to know when I have to call bump_version(), when I can edit the changelog without getting overwritten and when to call finalize(). Thanks Kirill for your patience.

[lorenzwalthert]

Ok, I now used {fledge} for tag 1.7.002 🎉. Next step would be to update CONTRIBUTING.md to reflect these change, i.e.

• Don't add news bullet to PR,
• handle PR commit messages right so {fledge} can understand them or use the PR title.
• regularly run bump_version() and finalize_version(push = TRUE).

[lorenzwalthert]

Also, @IndrajeetPatil in order to use PR tiles for {fledge}, I think we need to create explicit merge commits with PRs, as the home page says at https://cynkra.github.io/fledge/dev/.

[lorenzwalthert]

Sorry this has not worked for me. I can’t recall the exact problems but I got error messages sometimes and when merging, I don’t consistently set the title of the merge commit to make it into tie change log. Also, I find it much easier to just compile the channeling by reviewing all PR titles. If anyone else takes over maintenance of styler at some point, feel free to reopen. Also, I find it not 100% transparent what some of the commands do and docs sometimes did not help me.