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feat: add comprehensive automated release system with GitHub Actions#8
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  • Add GitHub Actions workflow for creating release PRs with smart version detection
  • Add Rake tasks for local release management with automatic version bumping
  • Add interactive release script with commit analysis and suggestions
  • Add automatic changelog generation from conventional commits
  • Add comprehensive documentation for release workflows
  • Support multiple release workflows: GitHub Actions (web UI), Rake tasks (CLI), and interactive scripts
  • Include intelligent commit analysis to suggest appropriate version bumps (major/minor/patch)
  • Add dry-run mode for previewing releases before creation
  • Support both manual and automatic version detection
  • Add team-friendly PR-based release workflow with built-in reviews

This provides a complete release automation system supporting:

  • 🚀 GitHub Actions: Web-based release creation with PR workflow
  • 🧠 Smart Analysis: Automatic version bump suggestions from commit history
  • 📝 Auto Changelog: Generate changelogs from conventional commit messages
  • 🎯 Multi-Channel: Web UI, command line, and interactive script options
  • 👥 Team Collaboration: PR-based reviews before release publishing
  • 🛡️ Built-in Safety: Comprehensive testing and validation before releases

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  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring/code cleanup

Testing

  • Tests pass locally
  • New tests added for new functionality
  • Manual testing completed

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  • My code follows the style guidelines of this project
  • I have performed a self-review of my own code
  • I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
  • I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
  • My changes generate no new warnings
  • Any dependent changes have been merged and published

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Pull Request Overview

This PR introduces a comprehensive automated release system with GitHub Actions integration, providing multiple release workflows for the slack-github-threads project. The system includes smart commit analysis for automatic version bump suggestions, automatic changelog generation from conventional commits, and both web-based and CLI release options.

Key changes include:

  • Add GitHub Actions workflow for creating release PRs with intelligent version detection
  • Add comprehensive Rake tasks for local release management with automatic changelog generation
  • Add interactive release script with guided workflow and commit analysis

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 10 out of 10 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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.github/workflows/create-release-pr.yml Main GitHub Actions workflow for automated release PR creation with smart analysis
.github/workflows/release.yml Release publishing workflow triggered by tags or merged release PRs
Rakefile Extensive release management tasks with version bumping and changelog generation
scripts/release.sh Interactive shell script for guided release creation with commit analysis
docs/RELEASE_SYSTEM.md Comprehensive documentation for all release workflows and features
docs/CONVENTIONAL_COMMITS.md Guide for conventional commit formatting to support automatic changelog
.github/RELEASE.md Configuration documentation for release workflows
.github/release.conf Configuration file with release settings and patterns
README.md Updated with release workflow documentation and usage examples
app.rb Minor update to correct application name in logging output

- Add GitHub Actions workflow for creating release PRs with smart version detection
- Add Rake tasks for local release management with automatic version bumping
- Add interactive release script with commit analysis and suggestions
- Add automatic changelog generation from conventional commits
- Add comprehensive documentation for release workflows
- Support multiple release workflows: GitHub Actions (web UI), Rake tasks (CLI), and interactive scripts
- Include intelligent commit analysis to suggest appropriate version bumps (major/minor/patch)
- Add dry-run mode for previewing releases before creation
- Support both manual and automatic version detection
- Add team-friendly PR-based release workflow with built-in reviews

This provides a complete release automation system supporting:
- 🚀 GitHub Actions: Web-based release creation with PR workflow
- 🧠 Smart Analysis: Automatic version bump suggestions from commit history
- 📝 Auto Changelog: Generate changelogs from conventional commit messages
- 🎯 Multi-Channel: Web UI, command line, and interactive script options
- 👥 Team Collaboration: PR-based reviews before release publishing
- 🛡️ Built-in Safety: Comprehensive testing and validation before releases
- Fix git describe error handling in release script
- Fix array insertion issue in changelog generation
- Extract version regex pattern as environment variable in release.yml
- Add proper error handling for missing tags
- Fix git describe error handling in release script
- Fix array insertion issue in changelog generation
- Extract version regex pattern as environment variable in release.yml
- Add proper error handling for missing tags
- Add rake help task showing commonly used commands with categories
- Include quick start guide and usage examples
- Update README to mention rake help as starting point
- Organize tasks by: Development, Code Quality, Release Management
- Provide clear guidance for new contributors
- Add rake lint task that runs both syntax checking and RuboCop
- Update rake ci to use lint task for better organization
- Update rake help to show lint as the primary code quality check
- Update README documentation to highlight lint task
- Provide granular options: lint (combined), syntax (only), rubocop (only)
- Improve development workflow with clearer task hierarchy
- Refactor complex methods in VersionHelper to improve readability
  - Split analyze_commits_for_version_bump into smaller focused methods
  - Break down generate_changelog_for_version into 7 helper methods
  - Extract commit categorization and formatting logic
- Refactor scripts/version.rb main method into focused command handlers
- Fix long lines and improve code organization throughout
- Update default rake task to show help instead of running tests
- Fix method naming conventions (remove get_ prefix)
- Achieve zero RuboCop offenses across all Ruby files

This addresses code complexity, method length, and style consistency
while maintaining all existing functionality.
@markhallen markhallen merged commit 32b8ebd into main Aug 2, 2025
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@markhallen markhallen deleted the add-release-config branch August 2, 2025 12:07
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