Guidelines for maintainers

Install Change log generator

In order to be able to generate the changelog for your published app/modules you need this gem, which creates a log file based on tags, issues and merged pull requests (and splits them into separate lists according to labels) from :octocat: GitHub Issue Tracker. This requires you to install (e.g. for Windows) Ruby and its DevKit.

Release

The same process applies when releasing a patch, minor or major version, i.e. the following tasks are done automatically on release:

• increase the package version number in the package.json file (frontend and backend API)
• publish the module on the NPM registry
• create a tag accordingly in the git repository and push it
• generates the changelog in the git repository and push it

This requires you to have a NPM and GitHub account with the appropriate rights, if you'd like to become a maintainer please tell us

Depending on the release type the following command will do the job (where type is either patch, minor, major):

npm run release:type

As we have a lot of issues/PRs to be integrated in change log please generate a GitHub token to avoid rate-limiting on their API and set the CHANGELOG_GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable to your token before publishing

The changelog suffers from the following issue so you might have to edit the generated changelog when pushing on different branches