Create Release Notes from GitHub Repo Commits

[metda11]

Hi - We want to keep Azure DevOps Boards and Pipelines for our deployments, but move our repositories, build pipelines, and automated tests to GitHub.

The big hurdle is knowing exactly what’s going into each release. In Azure DevOps, the e.g. '#xxx' syntax neatly links commits to work items, and the Generate Release Notes extension pulls everything together without a hitch.

While we can still tag GitHub commits with AB#xxx, Azure DevOps treats those references only as artifact links, so the extension no longer picks them up.

Is there a way to hook up a GitHub repo so we can generate release notes just as before?
I could collect the data manually, but I’d much rather keep relying on Generate Release Notes.

Thanks

[rfennell]

There is some support for AB#123, call is made to the function addGitHubLinkedWI

You should not have to do anything special, all commits are scanned for comments that include the AB#123 format.

Only comment is that this feature was written in 2020, so I can't remember the details of the testing that was done