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Map of user replacements

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
release

Research direction

Start by locating the configuration entry point and the code that assembles release-note drafts. Trace how each entry is produced, then determine where a string-to-string replacement map can be applied; done means configured keys are replaced in drafts, including contributor handles and linked project names as shown in the examples.

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Description

enhancement

Background

Autoreplacemets can greatly simplify the work of the release notes creator, and improve the quality of generated release notes.

Feature

Add a setting, which would be a map string->string. Each key occurence in the release notes entry would be replaced by its value in the draft

Example usage

Contributor's name replaced for their GitHub handle
David Benedeki->@benedeki
Commonly mentioned projects or sites linked
Fa-DB->[Fa-Db](https://github.com/AbsaOSS/fa-db)

Dominant language
Python
Stars
13
Forks
0
Avg merge
6h 50m
Merged PRs (30d)
7

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