skip_labels.md

Feature: Skip Labels

Purpose

Exclude all issues and pull requests from release notes chapters population process when they carry one of the configured labels. Keeps internal, noise, or non-user-facing work out of published notes.

How It Works

• Controlled by input skip-release-notes-labels (comma‑separated). Default: skip-release-notes.
• If any label on an issue or PR matches the configured list, that record is marked as skipped (skip=True).
• Skipped records are ignored by: Custom Chapters, and Service Chapters population logic.

Observable effect: they do not appear in any chapter, even if they would otherwise match.

Configuration

- name: Generate Release Notes
  id: release_notes_scrapper
  uses: AbsaOSS/generate-release-notes@v1
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  with:
    tag-name: "v2.0.0"
    chapters: |
      - {"title": "Features", "label": "feature"}
      - {"title": "Fixes", "label": "bug"}
    skip-release-notes-labels: "skip-release-notes,internal,ops"

Example

Given PR #120 labeled internal:

Features
- (no line for #120 – it was skipped)

Example Result

### Features
- #118 _Add MFA support_ developed by @alice in #119

### Fixes
- #121 _Resolve cache eviction bug_ developed by @bob in #122

#### Full Changelog
https://github.com/org/repo/compare/v1.5.0...v2.0.0

(Internal / skipped items not shown.)

Related Features

• Service Chapters – skipped items don’t appear as warnings.

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