Ask HN: How do you decide what goes in a changelog vs. internal notes?
2•beratbozkurt0•1h ago
Do you have a rule of thumb for this? Does anyone on your team own this decision, or does it fall to whoever writes the release?
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mudscientist•55m ago
changelogs are for consumers, internal notes are for the team.
Ideally, nobody should be making this decision manually at release time. If you use semantic versioning and Conventional Commits, you can completely automate changelogs generation. This shifts the responsibility to individual developers to write properly scoped commit messages
mudscientist•55m ago