Trigger release drafter updates on non-PR commits on default branch

[awinecki]

Is it possible to trigger release drafter on each commit on git default branch (e.g. master or main)?

Here's my reasoning and potential use case for this.

I would like to create a flow similar to https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/, where:

• Anyone can commit on main branch,
• Optionally, people create PRs to request code review.

In an experienced team (possibly using Foreman-style commit checking), you don't always need to enforce PRs for every small change, as it may slow you down. Often a small change in README.md is just a quick commit to main.

However, it would still be great to use a tool like release drafter and see such commits in the release changelog.

An example commit message triggering this would be:

feat[PROJ-123] update README.md with deployment instructions #patch

This should trigger release drafter, adding a patch to the changelog.

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Current flow as per my testing:

I've pushed a single commit to main and it created a new release draft, but with NO CHANGES annotation:

And subsequent commits did not re-trigger release drafter.

[darioblanco]

I did create https://github.com/darioblanco/release-wizard a long time ago but it did not have much adoption. It actually adrdesses problems like this, has trunk based development support and even can run in monorepos.

I came back to release drafter because I would love to use a tool with more adoption and I still see that this is sadly not possible.

If release-wizard helps you with your problem I might consider to give it some support, as I do not think that release-drafter will address this problem soon, I also checked the code base and the change did not seem so trivial to implement.