Release Notes – gathering data

In the release notes we're providing a few interesting tidbits.

The first is the number of bugs we've fixed since the last green release. The information for that is obtained from basic github search, using the query:

is:issue is:closed label:bug closed:>=YYYY-MM-DD -label:duplicate -label:status-ignored -label:status-norepro -label:status-declined -label:status-deferred -label:status-bydesign

We also note how many of these bugs were known at the time of the last green release, by adding created:<=YYYY-MM-DD to the query.

Adjusting the label filters also allows us to give a number of enhancements implemented with the query:

is:issue is:closed label:enhancement -label:bug closed:>=2019-12-22 -label:duplicate -label:status-ignored -label:status-norepro -label:status-declined -label:status-deferred -label:status-bydesign

We also grab the number of commits to next since the last green release from the pull request that merges the state of "next" into "master"

All of this information can then be aggregated in the following template:

This version fixes [#1 bugs][fixed-bugs], [#2][known-before] of which were known issues at the time of the release of v...;
 [#3 enhancement issues][enhancements] were closed in this development cycle, in #4 commits.