chores and build(deps) commits not appearing in changelog

[khavishbhundoo]

Release please will create PR when there is a feat, fix(i.e releasable unit) but when it generate the changelog chores or build(deps) commit do not appear in changelog

[einaren]

https://github.com/googleapis/release-please/blob/main/README.md#step-1-ensure-releasable-units-are-merged says commits with the prefix deps are releasable units. Is it true?

[vlazh]

After looking through the sources I found the solution (for a while). I have tried it with release-please-action and it works for me. It needs to define/override changelog-sections in the own release-please-config.json file. For example:

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
  "release-type": "node",
  "versioning": "default",
  "changelog-sections": [
    { "type": "feat", "hidden": false, "section": "Features" },
    { "type": "feature", "hidden": false, "section": "Features" },
    { "type": "fix", "hidden": false, "section": "Bug Fixes" },
    { "type": "chore", "hidden": false, "section": "Miscellaneous Chores" },
    { "type": "build", "hidden": false, "section": "Miscellaneous Chores" },
    { "type": "docs", "hidden": false, "section": "Docs" }
  ],
  "packages": {
    ".": {}
  }
}

[jjjermiah]

@vlazh i also searched for a while to finally get here, thank you!

[shillberry]

https://github.com/googleapis/release-please/blob/main/README.md#step-1-ensure-releasable-units-are-merged says commits with the prefix deps are releasable units. Is it true?

I was also mislead by this documentation. Digging into the base defaults, only "feat", "fix", "perf", and "revert" are releasable by default. Python and Java also include "deps" and "docs".

As vlazh noted, this behavior is easy to override in the config.