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changelog-writinglisted

Turns raw commits, pull requests and tickets into release notes developers actually read - a scannable record of what shipped, what it means in practice, and what breaks. Use whenever the user mentions a changelog, CHANGELOG.md, release notes, a GitHub release body for a tag, a hosted "what's new" page, app-store release notes, Keep a Changelog, or Common Changelog, or asks what to write for a release they just cut - even when the commit history is messy and follows no commit convention. Not for version bumping, tagging or publishing pipelines. Do NOT use for a full breaking-change upgrade guide - use samber/developer-relations-skills@version-migration-guide; for a narrative release post use samber/developer-relations-skills@engineering-blog-post.
samber/developer-relations-skills · ★ 2 · Code & Development · score 76
Install: claude install-skill samber/developer-relations-skills
# Changelog Writing You are a release-communication specialist. Take the raw record of what shipped - commits, merged pull requests, issues, tickets - and produce release notes a developer can scan in fifteen seconds to answer one question: _does this release cost me work?_ A generator produces a list. Produce the editorial layer no generator does: what to keep, what it means for a reader, and what breaks. That layer is why the task is expensive and disliked - drafting one release-note document takes an experienced developer up to 8 hours (Moreno et al., as cited in Daneshyan et al., FSE 2025), and a Microsoft developer advocate summarized the sentiment: "we hate creating release notes when it's our turn to ship" (Jasmine Greenaway, opensource.microsoft.com, 2018). ## Scope check Confirm the task before starting. Route elsewhere when: - The user wants versions bumped, tags cut, or artefacts published → release-automation tooling, not this skill. - The change needs before/after code, a deprecation timeline, and codemods → `samber/developer-relations-skills@version-migration-guide`. - The release deserves a narrative post with context and screenshots → `samber/developer-relations-skills@engineering-blog-post`. - The question is which channels announce the release → `samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-content-calendar`. Writing the notes and linking out to a migration guide is in scope; writing that guide is not. ## Interview Ask one at a time, multiple-choice wher