Feature request: Renovate

[SubJunk]

Hi, thank you so much for this action, it is very useful.
Is there any chance you could add support for Mend Renovate? https://github.com/marketplace/renovate

Their support for monorepos makes them invaluable for me, along with some configuration options Dependabot doesn't offer, for example here SubJunk/TimelineTools#1194 it updated 11 packages in one PR, so I would love to use it with this instead of having to stick with Dependabot

[dangoslen]

Great idea. Never heard of Renovate, but it makes sense to me.

I took at a look at that PR - do you have any other examples?

From a high-level, I think we would need to essentially create

• a new RenovateEntryExtractor that parses renovate PRs for the versions
• Ability to switch between DependabotEntryExtractor and Renovate - likely based on the author - via a factory
• put a new EntryExtractor interface in place that can be used across both

Once Entries are extracted, the rest of the Changelog updates should flow seamlessly.

I'll see if I can get started on this later this month (have some important work in the day-job in the coming weeks). But I'm always open to contributions and I think this should be pretty easy to get started.

What I might do is add some of the refactors to add the factory/interface in a PR. Would you be up for trying to add the Renovate support if I get that scaffolding setup?

This idea does introduce a new problem though: how do I rename my action now? 🙃

[dangoslen]

I also think we could create another input to select the entry format vs. trying to do any auto-selection. Auto-selection I think would be pretty cool... but maybe having an "escape hatch" input could help.

[SubJunk]

@dangoslen thanks for the thoughtful responses. An example from the repository I use this Action in is here UniversalMediaServer/UniversalMediaServer#3754
Yes I can try to continue on from your scaffolding, I get busy in my day job too but I will try :)