element-hq / element-hq/element-x-android

2 changelog entries when merging a PR into another branch

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Description

When a maintainer merges a community PR into his branch and creates another PR, changelog puts the maintainer into the top-level sections, while the original PR and author is put to Others. I think we should merge entries (e.g. maintainer should create PR with the same title), and have the second PR mentioned as a fixup (by putting a label on the fixup PR?).

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by tracing how changelog entries are generated from merged pull requests, then inspect how PR titles and labels could identify a fixup relationship. Done means a community PR merged into another branch produces one merged changelog entry rather than separate maintainer and original-author entries.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
release
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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