v0.0.86 - Robust summarize_release.py previous tag (#475)
🌟 Summary
This release strengthens the reliability of release automation and testing workflows, making the process more robust and error-resistant for both developers and users. 🛡️✨
📊 Key Changes
- Improved the release summary script to handle API errors and missing data more gracefully, reducing the chance of failures during automated releases.
- Enhanced logic for identifying previous Git tags, ensuring accurate release comparisons even in edge cases.
- Expanded and updated automated tests for both release and file update scripts, including real-file and edge-case scenarios.
- Upgraded Slack notification actions to the latest version for better error messages and configuration options.
- Increased overall test coverage for file header and markdown code block update scripts.
🎯 Purpose & Impact
- 🏗️ Greater Reliability: Release summaries and automation are now more dependable, even if GitHub APIs behave unexpectedly.
- 🧪 Stronger Testing: Broader test coverage means future updates are safer and less likely to introduce bugs.
- 📣 Improved Notifications: Up-to-date Slack integration ensures clearer communication about release status.
- 👩💻 Developer Confidence: Developers can trust that automation scripts will handle real-world scenarios and edge cases smoothly.
- 🚀 User Experience: End users benefit from more stable releases and fewer interruptions due to automation errors.
Overall, this update is focused on making the development and release process smoother, safer, and more transparent for everyone involved!
What's Changed
- Bump slackapi/slack-github-action from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #471
- Bump slackapi/slack-github-action from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot[bot] in #472
- Update test_update_markdown_codeblocks.py by @glenn-jocher in #473
- Robust summarize_release.py previous tag by @glenn-jocher in #475
Full Changelog: v0.0.85...v0.0.86
Contributors
glenn-jocher and dependabot