Release Notes Support for providers other than GitHub Releases

[hrueger]

• Version: 22.10.5

• Electron Version: 12.0.7
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current

• Target: Windows, MacOS, Linux

This is probably related to #5892. I'd like to also get release notes (in my case a changelog) for providers other than GitHub Releases. I'm using an S3 server. Maybe a .json or a .yml file could be uploaded there (like the latest.yml) to store the notes. This would also make it easier to get a full list of versions (see downgrading to specific versions in #5892)

What do you think?

[hrueger]

Sorry for another ping. I'd be happy to work on this, I'd just be interested in your thoughts about how it should be accomplished.

[mmaietta]

Off the top of my head, I believe you can achieve this by creating the changeset yourself during an electron-builder hook, then implement a "custom" Publisher that defines its own uploader or HttpExecutor. That should allow you to customize the full configuration of files to be uploaded and could include your changeset file.

[hrueger]

That's a great idea, I'll look into that, thanks.

So would you say that this is not something which other people would also like to see and you would accept a PR for? I don't think that this would be a breaking change.

[mmaietta]

Sorry for leaving this hanging. Happy to accept contributions! I think it's a cool idea

It's relatively simple to get a local dev env set up: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#to-setup-a-local-dev-environment

Where were you thinking of being able to pull the changelog from? The repo/project?

[hrueger]

Sorry for leaving this hanging

No problem. The company I work for currently has set other priorities. That means I won't be able to work on that right now, but definitely in a couple weeks.

Where were you thinking of being able to pull the changelog from? The repo/project?

Yes, probably. I'll do some research if there's like a standardized changelog format which can be read programmatically.

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