Automate GitHub stats reporting with scheduled pipelines
Use scheduled pipelines to automate reporting for issues and PRs
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Release notes provide essential documentation when a new software version is released. For release notes to be most effective, dev teams must consolidate all of the work that has been done since the previous release. It is a hectic task that requires a lot of effort and time sorting through weeks or even months of software issues and pull requests.
Why not make the life of the release team easier by automating the creation of release notes? You can, using a combination of GitHub API and a CI/CD tool like CircleCI. Automate the task of fetching issues and pull requests, and put them in a single place where they can be accessed easily by the release notes team.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn to use the GitHub API and CircleCI to create weekly stats for your GitHub repositories. The plan is to build an automated workflow using CircleCI scheduled pipelines. The pipeline will fetch all the issues and pull requests made during a specified interval, save these stats in a file, and commit this file back to the repository.
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