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ci: document releases and group release notes by label - #6178
Our release notes come from GitHub's generate_release_notes, which produces a flat list of PR titles. In v0.236.4, CI fixes, Dependabot JS bumps and a test change sit alongside user-facing fixes, and nothing calls out breaking changes or state migrations. There's also no written release process.
This PR groups the release notes using labels that are set automatically from PR titles, and documents how to cut a release.
Release notes
.github/release.yml groups the notes into Breaking changes, State migrations, Features, Performance, Bug fixes, Documentation, Maintenance and Other changes. PRs labelled ci, test, dependencies or skip-changelog are left out.
.github/workflows/pr-labels.yaml:
Checks that the PR title follows type(scope): description and sets the matching label: feat → feature, fix → bug, and so on.
A ! adds breaking-change.
A ci or test scope keeps the PR out of the notes.
A PR that adds a file under sqlmesh/migrations/ gets migration.
It runs on pull_request_target so it can label PRs from forks. It never checks out or runs PR code.
.github/dependabot.yml uses a lowercase chore prefix so Dependabot titles pass the check.
Docs
RELEASING.md (new) gives the steps for releasing the Python package, the VS Code extension and the shared web package. It describes how the workflows work today and doesn't change them.
CONTRIBUTING.md documents the PR title format and links to RELEASING.md.
This replaces #6180, which proposed RELEASING.md separately.
Notes for maintainers
The workflow creates its labels the first time it needs them. skip-changelog is added by hand, so it needs to be created once.
PRs merged before this have no labels, so the first release afterwards will put most entries under "Other changes".
RELEASING.md doesn't set policy. These need a decision:
Who may push release tags. Any account that can push a v* tag publishes to PyPI with no approval step. Options include:
a tag ruleset that limits who can create v* tags
a GitHub environment with required reviewers on the publish job
PyPI Trusted Publishing, which also removes the TWINE_PASSWORD secret
When to bump the minor version. Every recent release is a 0.236.x patch, including ones with features and breaking fixes.
Whether to keep the tobiko-private upload done by make publish-tests.
Test Plan
Ran the title-labeling script under Node with a stubbed GitHub client against recent PR titles and edge cases. The cases covered fix(ci):, Fix:, feat(plan)!:, fix(ci)!:, Revert "...", chore(deps): and changing a title's type. They checked that stale type labels are removed and that other labels are kept.
Checked that the YAML files parse, and checked RELEASING.md against release.yaml, release_extension.yaml, release_shared_js.yaml, the Makefile and pyproject.toml.
The pull_request_target workflow only takes effect after it's merged to main.
Checklist
I have run make style and fixed any issues (not applicable: no files covered by the style hooks changed)
I have added tests for my changes (not applicable)
All existing tests pass (make fast-test) (not applicable)
My commits are signed off (git commit -s) per the DCO
Summary by CodeRabbit
Documentation
Added guidance for pull request titles, release-note categories, and release procedures for the Python package, VS Code extension, and shared web package.
Chores
Release notes now group changes by category and omit selected pull requests.
Pull request titles are checked for the required format, and labels are applied based on title type and migration changes.
Dependency update commit messages now use a consistent format.
Release notes were a flat list of PR titles, mixing CI and test work with
user-facing changes and giving no callout for breaking changes or state
migrations.
- .github/release.yml groups generated notes into Breaking Changes, State
Migrations, Features, Performance, Bug Fixes, Documentation and
Maintenance, and leaves out ci, test, dependencies and skip-changelog PRs.
- A new PR Labels workflow checks that PR titles follow
'type(scope): description' and labels the PR from the type, scope and '!'.
actions/labeler adds migration, engine and area labels from changed files.
- The PR template gains a Release Note section, CONTRIBUTING.md documents
the title format, Dependabot uses a lowercase 'chore' prefix, and GitHub
releases are created as drafts so highlights can be added before publishing.
Signed-off-by: mday-io <mdaytn@gmail.com>
- Detect new state migrations with the pulls API: actions/labeler has no
added-files option, and the invalid key would have failed every path label.
- Treat the title as the source of truth for type labels, reading live
labels instead of diffing against the previous title, and queue runs
rather than cancelling them, so labels can't go stale.
- Skip the title job on pushes, keep breaking changes out of the excluded
ci/test labels, accept GitHub's Revert titles, avoid prototype lookups,
and tolerate labels that were already removed.
Signed-off-by: mday-io <mdaytn@gmail.com>
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/pr-labels.yaml:
- Line 138: Update the label reconciliation in the workflow to fetch the pull
request’s current labels when the job runs instead of reading the potentially
stale context.payload.pull_request.labels event data. Reuse the current-label
retrieval approach used by the title job so queued runs reconcile the migration
label against the latest state.
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Walkthrough
The pull request adds title-based and migration-based labeling, configures release-note categories, and documents pull request conventions and release procedures for three packages.
Changes: Pull request and release workflow
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Summary
Pull request title and label automation .github/dependabot.yml, .github/workflows/pr-labels.yaml, CONTRIBUTING.md
Dependency update commits use a chore prefix and include scope. The workflow validates pull request titles and synchronizes title-derived labels. It adds or removes a migration label based on matching added files. Contribution guidance describes title formatting and label rules.
Release-note categories and conventions .github/release.yml, CONTRIBUTING.md, RELEASING.md
Release-note configuration excludes specified labels and groups other pull requests by label. The documentation describes categories, exclusions, and title-based categorization.
Package publishing procedures RELEASING.md
Release instructions cover Python package publishing, the VS Code extension, and the shared web package.
sequenceDiagram
participant GitHubPullRequest
participant PRLabelsWorkflow
participant GitHubLabelsAPI
GitHubPullRequest->>PRLabelsWorkflow: send pull request event and title
PRLabelsWorkflow->>PRLabelsWorkflow: validate title and inspect added files
PRLabelsWorkflow->>GitHubLabelsAPI: synchronize title-derived labels
PRLabelsWorkflow->>GitHubLabelsAPI: synchronize migration label
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Merge Risk: Low · up to 5758b
A queued labeling run can omit a migration pull request from the appropriate release-note section; refresh live labels before reconciling them.
Architecture risk: Low · up to 5758b
The change affects 2 systems.
Changed systems:CONTRIBUTING.md, RELEASING.md
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observed — CONTRIBUTING.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
observed — RELEASING.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
Before / after behavior
observed — Modified behavior in CONTRIBUTING.md: Adds pull request title formatting and validation guidance, accepted GitHub revert titles, instructions for rerunning title checks, and rules describing how titles determine release labels and how to exclude PRs from release notes.
observed — Modified behavior in CONTRIBUTING.md: Adds a Releases section stating that maintainers publish releases and linking to RELEASING.md.
observed — Modified behavior in RELEASING.md: Adds an overview of the three published packages, their registries, and how each release is started.
observed — Modified behavior in RELEASING.md: Documents the Python release trigger and workflow outputs, notes that publishing has no approval gate, and instructs maintainers to check main before tagging.
Pre-merge checks: 5
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Title check
The title clearly summarizes the main changes: documenting releases and grouping release notes by label.
Description check
The description includes all required sections, explains the changes, provides a detailed test plan, and addresses the checklist items with applicable justifications.
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- Line 19: Update the title-guidance link in the PR template’s checklist to
point directly to the repository’s CONTRIBUTING.md section using an explicit
GitHub URL and retain the #pull-request-titles anchor.
Review comments at @.github/workflows/pr-labels.yaml:
- Around line 127-129: Set sync-labels to true in the actions/labeler@v6 step so
path labels are synchronized with the PR’s current changed files, removing stale
labels defined in .github/labeler.yml.
- Line 143: Update the `if (!added) return;` path so it removes the `migration`
label when no added migration remains, while preserving the existing label
behavior when `added` is true.
- Around line 23-26: Remove the synchronize exclusion from the title job’s `if`
condition so the title and label check runs on synchronize events and reconciles
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SQLMesh#6178 adds .github/release.yml with labels applied automatically from PR
titles, and creates GitHub releases as drafts. Drop this PR's simpler
release.yml so the two don't conflict, and update RELEASING.md to match:
labels come from the title, and the release step is to edit and publish
the draft.
Move the Releases section to the end of CONTRIBUTING.md so it doesn't
conflict with the PR title section SQLMesh#6178 adds.
Signed-off-by: mday-io <mdaytn@gmail.com>
Narrow the PR to grouping release notes by label:
- Drop the path labeler. Its engine and area labels don't feed any
release-note section.
- Drop the Release Note section from the PR template. Nothing reads it.
- Keep creating published GitHub releases rather than drafts. Whether to
switch to drafts is a process decision for maintainers.
Add RELEASING.md with the steps for releasing the Python package, the
VS Code extension and the shared web package, and link to it from
CONTRIBUTING.md. It was previously proposed separately in
SQLMesh#6180.
Signed-off-by: mday-io <mdaytn@gmail.com>
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ci: group release notes by label and check PR titles
ci: document releases and group release notes by label
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Review comments at @RELEASING.md:
- Line 49: Update the release-note guidance for state migrations to clarify that
a migration pull request labeled breaking-change appears under Breaking changes
rather than State migrations, and that excluded labels may omit it from the
notes; direct maintainers to check the applicable category for migration
instructions.
- Around line 32-33: Update the release tag and push commands to use a version
placeholder instead of the hard-coded v0.236.5, and instruct maintainers to
substitute the version selected in step 2 in both commands.
- Line 27: Update the version-selection step in the release instructions to
fetch tags before inspecting them, then select the highest applicable release
version rather than sorting by tag creation date. Ensure the chosen version is
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- Run the title job on pushes too. GitHub keeps one pending run per
concurrency group, so a push could replace a queued run for a title
edit and leave labels for the old title.
- Remove the migration label when a PR no longer adds a migration.
- RELEASING.md: fetch tags before picking the version, sort tags by
version rather than date, and use a VERSION variable instead of a
hard-coded tag in the tag and push commands.
- RELEASING.md: note that a PR appears in only one release-note section,
so a breaking change with a migration is listed under Breaking changes.
Signed-off-by: mday-io <mdaytn@gmail.com>
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- Line 138: Update the label reconciliation in the workflow to fetch the pull
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retrieval approach used by the title job so queued runs reconcile the migration
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Read the current migration label before reconciling it.
A queued run uses the labels from its event, not the labels present when it executes. For example, a first run can remove migration after a second push re-adds the file and queues a run whose payload still contains that label. The second run then returns at Line 150, leaving the migration out of the release-note section. (docs.github.com)
Fetch the current labels when the job runs, as the title job does.
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Update the label reconciliation in the workflow to fetch the pull request’s
current labels when the job runs instead of reading the potentially stale
context.payload.pull_request.labels event data. Reuse the current-label
retrieval approach used by the title job so queued runs reconcile the migration
label against the latest state.
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Description
Our release notes come from GitHub's
generate_release_notes, which produces a flat list of PR titles. In v0.236.4, CI fixes, Dependabot JS bumps and a test change sit alongside user-facing fixes, and nothing calls out breaking changes or state migrations. There's also no written release process.This PR groups the release notes using labels that are set automatically from PR titles, and documents how to cut a release.
Release notes
.github/release.ymlgroups the notes into Breaking changes, State migrations, Features, Performance, Bug fixes, Documentation, Maintenance and Other changes. PRs labelledci,test,dependenciesorskip-changelogare left out..github/workflows/pr-labels.yaml:type(scope): descriptionand sets the matching label:feat→feature,fix→bug, and so on.!addsbreaking-change.ciortestscope keeps the PR out of the notes.sqlmesh/migrations/getsmigration.pull_request_targetso it can label PRs from forks. It never checks out or runs PR code..github/dependabot.ymluses a lowercasechoreprefix so Dependabot titles pass the check.Docs
RELEASING.md(new) gives the steps for releasing the Python package, the VS Code extension and the shared web package. It describes how the workflows work today and doesn't change them.CONTRIBUTING.mddocuments the PR title format and links toRELEASING.md.This replaces #6180, which proposed
RELEASING.mdseparately.Notes for maintainers
skip-changelogis added by hand, so it needs to be created once.!PR such as fix!: include referenced Jinja macros in standalone audit metadata hash #6179 labels itbreaking-change.Open questions for the TSC
RELEASING.mddoesn't set policy. These need a decision:v*tag publishes to PyPI with no approval step. Options include:v*tagsTWINE_PASSWORDsecret0.236.xpatch, including ones with features and breaking fixes.tobiko-privateupload done bymake publish-tests.Test Plan
fix(ci):,Fix:,feat(plan)!:,fix(ci)!:,Revert "...",chore(deps):and changing a title's type. They checked that stale type labels are removed and that other labels are kept.RELEASING.mdagainstrelease.yaml,release_extension.yaml,release_shared_js.yaml, theMakefileandpyproject.toml.pull_request_targetworkflow only takes effect after it's merged tomain.Checklist
make styleand fixed any issues (not applicable: no files covered by the style hooks changed)make fast-test) (not applicable)git commit -s) per the DCOSummary by CodeRabbit