microsoft / microsoft/winget-create
Auto-fill `ReleaseNotes` from GitHub
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Issue-Feature
Needs-Triage
- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 651
- Forks
- 114
- Avg merge
- 7h 52m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Auto-fill ReleaseNotes for those packages released on GitHub
Proposed technical implementation details
From https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repo>/releases/tags/<versiontag> request body and reformat it as ReleaseNotes
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating how winget-create currently handles the ReleaseNotes manifest field and where package release metadata is processed. Use the GitHub releases-by-tag endpoint described in the issue, then verify that the release body is converted into ReleaseNotes for GitHub-hosted packages.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp, github
- Domain
- api, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100