Hugo Changelog Theme

A Hugo theme to display a changelog

Features

• Build with Spectre.css (All unused components are disabled)
• Pagination
• Mobile friendly

How to install

• Clone the repository with --recursive flag as the theme includes submodule

  git clone git@github.com:jsnjack/hugo-changelog-theme.git --recursive
  

• Use hugo extended version

Workflow

Conventions

• Create non-released entries in experimental/ folder. All of them are displayed in the top of the first page
• Create deprecation entries in deprecated/ folder. Deprecated entries appear in a dropdown section on top of the first page
• Create released entries in released/ folders. Entries are sorted by Weight. Weight is displayed as version
• Your hugo changelog website is located in site/changelog/ folder
• You are using master branch as the stable branch and develop branch as a working branch (needed for the post-merge webhook only)

Scripts

• Makefile - list of useful commands
• release.py - moves changes from the experimental/ folder to the released/ folder, assigns version number and generates release-commit
• .githooks/post-merge - verifies that experimental/ folder is empty during the merge from the working branch to the stable branch

Dependencies

• For release script:

   sudo pip install python-frontmatter
  

Description

1. When a pull request is ready, a developer creates a changelog entry:

   make change
   

   The command creates a *.md file with random name (ensures that there will be no merge conflicts) in site/changelog/content/experimental/ folder

2. If necessary, the developer creates a deprecation entry:

   make deprecation
   

   The command creates a *.md file with random name (ensures that there will be no merge conflicts) in site/changelog/content/deprecated/ folder. Note that deprecation entries are not removed automatically. When a certain deprecated feature reaches the end of life period, the corresponding file in the deprecation/ folder has to be removed manually

3. The developer updates created files with changes. Changes are going to be rendered in the experimental section of the template

4. Preview the site with the command:

   make serve_changelog
   

5. When the working branch is ready to be merged in the stable branch, the developer runs:

   make release
   

   The command will move all *.md files from the experimental/ folder to the released/ folder, assign the release version and generate the commit with related changes

6. The developer merges working branch in to the stable branch

Shortcodes

• {{< tag fixed >}} - create a specific tag before entry text. Available tag types are: added, changed, fixed, deprecated, removed, performance, security, self-hosted

Settings

[params]
    customCSS = ["css/styles.css"]  # List of css files to include on the website. Relative to the static/ folder
    customJS = ["js/script.js"]     # List of js files to include on the website. Relative to the static/ folder

Development

Serve example website

cd exampleSite && hugo serve --theme hugo-changelog-theme --themesDir ../../ --baseURL http://localhost/