Ask HN: How do you decide what goes in a changelog vs. internal notes?

2 points by beratbozkurt0 14 days ago | 3 comments

Do you have a rule of thumb for this? Does anyone on your team own this decision, or does it fall to whoever writes the release?

mudscientist 14 days ago |

changelogs are for consumers, internal notes are for the team. Ideally, nobody should be making this decision manually at release time. If you use semantic versioning and Conventional Commits, you can completely automate changelogs generation. This shifts the responsibility to individual developers to write properly scoped commit messages

amaze_28 2 days ago | |

exactly. a good commit message apart from keeping track of what shipped, also lets u automate the changelog/release note generation. i built commitposts.com around this idea.

gus_massa 14 days ago |

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