Automation like this is definitely a helpful first step for maintainers who want to prepare good release notes. I wrote a provider-neutral guide for using git

Automation like this is definitely a helpful first step for maintainers who want to prepare good release notes. I wrote a provider-neutral guide for using git itself to help automate the preparation of good release notes, and also provide some more specific advice on how to make them worth reading: https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/19/How-to-write-release-notes.html https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/19/How-to-write-release-note... This might offer some advice useful to those trying out this new GitHub feature, which can take the place of the git shortlog step I described here. Disclaimer: I represent a platform which competes with GitHub