When I joined Entire, I noticed my boss spending a chunk of time every week writing detailed release notes, called Dispatches at Entire. It looked like a painful process. Each Dispatch had to cover changes across several repositories, explain why those changes mattered, credit external contributors, and carefully avoid leaking anything that was not public yet.
I offered to take it over. I had solved a similar problem before, so I figured it would be an easy win.
I built something similar and simpler at Block
While I was at Block, I built a release notes generator for goose. It ran in GitHub Actions after a release workflow completed, checked out the new tag, compared it against the previous one, and handed goose a recipe to inspect the commit diff.
Goose organized those commits into features, bug fixes, improvements, and documentation. Each entry got a short description and a PR link. The workflow then updated the GitHub release and posted the announcement to Discord, opening a thread if the notes exceeded the message limit.
