Conventional Release Labels

Action that automatically adds labels to pull requests based on Conventional Commits. These labels can be used in conjunction GitHub's automatically generated release notes:

Setting up action

Create a .github/workflows/conventional-label.yaml:

# Warning, do not check out untrusted code with
# the pull_request_target event.
on:
  pull_request_target:
    types: [ opened, edited ]
name: conventional-release-labels
jobs:
  label:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: bcoe/conventional-release-labels@v1

Create a .github/release.yaml:

changelog:
  exclude:
    labels:
      - ignore-for-release
    authors:
      - octocat
  categories:
    - title: Breaking Changes 🛠
      labels:
        - breaking
    - title: Exciting New Features 🎉
      labels:
        - feature
    - title: Fixes 🔧
      labels:
        - fix
    - title: Other Changes
      labels:
        - "*"

Configuration

input	description
token	A GitHub secret token, the action defaults to using the special, default: secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN
type_labels	Mapping from Conventional Commit types to pull request labels, default: {"feat": "feature", "fix": "fix", "breaking": "breaking"}
ignored_types	Conventional commit types that should have ignore_label applied, default: ["chore"]
ignore_label	label to apply for ignored commits, default: ignore-for-release

Enjoy 🎉

Related Tools

tool	description
release-please-action	Fully automated releases with Conventional Commits

License

Apache Version 2.0