internal: Add guidelines for release notes PR descriptions

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Laurențiu Nicola 2021-04-19 21:09:24 +03:00
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@ -83,8 +83,19 @@ This makes it easier to prepare a changelog.
If the change adds a new user-visible functionality, consider recording a GIF with [peek](https://github.com/phw/peek) and pasting it into the PR description.
To make writing the release notes easier, you can mark a pull request as a feature, fix, internal change, or minor.
Minor changes are excluded from the release notes, while the other types are distributed in their corresponding sections.
There are two ways to mark this:
* use a `feat: `, `feature: `, `fix: `, `internal: ` or `minor: ` prefix in the PR title
* write `changelog [feature|fix|internal|skip] [description]` in a comment or in the PR description; the description is optional, and will replace the title if included.
These comments don't have to be added by the PR author.
Editing a comment or the PR description or title is also fine, as long as it happens before the release.
**Rationale:** clean history is potentially useful, but rarely used.
But many users read changelogs.
Including a description and GIF suitable for the changelog means less work for the maintainers on the release day.
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