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feat(framework): credit GitHub contributors in generated release notes

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, github-actions, typescript
Domain
ci-cd, release

Research direction

Start by reading release-please-config.json and .github/workflows/ci.yml, then compare the generated v5.10.0 release. Trace where root and component release notes are produced and run the existing tests before changing behavior. Done means human PR authors are credited once per applicable release, bots are excluded, and repeated generation remains unchanged.

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Description

Problem

Release Please lists changes, pull requests and commits, but the generated GitHub releases do not explicitly credit human contributors by GitHub handle.

The current v5.10.0 release contains no contributor section or @handle mentions.

Scope

  • Resolve the human authors of pull requests included in each release.
  • Add a contributor section to generated GitHub release notes.
  • Mention each contributor by GitHub handle.
  • Deduplicate contributors with multiple changes.
  • Exclude bots and GitHub Apps.
  • Keep release generation idempotent.
  • Apply attribution to the root release and affected component releases.

Acceptance criteria

  • Every human PR author included in a release is mentioned exactly once.
  • Bots and GitHub Apps are excluded.
  • Multiple contributions by one author produce one mention per release.
  • Re-running the workflow does not duplicate the section or handles.
  • Contributors whose changes are absent from a component release are not credited in that component release.
  • Tests cover multiple contributors, a repeated contributor and a bot.
  • Release notes remain generated by the automated release pipeline.

Prior art in this repo

  • release-please-config.json
  • .github/workflows/ci.yml
  • Release v5.10.0.

Out of scope

  • Rewriting Git history.
  • Crediting automated accounts.
  • Manually maintained changelogs.
  • Crediting people without a traceable GitHub contribution in the release range.
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
481
Forks
45
Avg merge
14h 27m
Merged PRs (30d)
111

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