microsoft / microsoft/beachball

Beachball doesn't allow empty change comments

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Description

We currently use Rush but are investigating options to migrate to pnpm workspaces and Lage instead. Beachball feels similar to Rush but there's one major difference: it doesn't allow supplying a blank message to the change file. This is an interesting change because that's the default behavior of Rush when you don't provide your own message. I think it would make sense to support empty messages because not all changes (especially bumping some internal dependency) deserve their own entry in the changelog.

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Research direction

Locate the change-file message validation and the tests covering change comments. Confirm how an omitted message is currently handled, then make the empty-message case valid and add coverage showing that an internal dependency change can omit its changelog entry.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
release
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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