Light-bot Command

A command is the smallest unit of action in the light-bot. It usually focuses on a single job with some passed in parameters. All commands in light-bot are located in the exec-core module.

The following is a list of important commands.

ChangeLog Command

For release-docker and release-maven tasks, we need to generate the changelog for the release and update CHANGELOG.md in the release branch. Previously, we were using github-changelog-generator; however, it doesn’t support changelog generation per release branch after we introduced the maintenance branch. After searching on the Internet for other alternative tools, we decided to build a command component in the light-bot. Most existing tools don’t support release branches and leverage the GitHub v3 Rest API with a lot of extra data fetched from the server. Read More »