Custom Release titles for GitHub

[KnisterPeter]

Hi there,

first of all this is an awesome tool 🚀.

I would like to ask if it would be possible to extend it to allow plugins to contribute release titles for GitHub releases.
This #1083 defines that it should be the tag name. But before it was set implicitly which might have had some side-effects. I guess that from the PR message included.

What I have in mind would be a hook for plugins to customize/contribute the release. Or if preferred a configuration option to supply a name.
I would like to have it kind of dynamic, because we are using changing names for each release following a schema (e.g. like ubuntu with this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames)

I'm also willing to contribute a PR if accepted to work on this. But I'm unsure where to start, since I didn't know the codebase and the preferences.

[hipstersmoothie]

Yeah I think a hook for that would be fine I'm thinking a hook called modifyRelease that gets called before publish here.

The hook could get the release notes, tag and title and allow the hook to modify it. You could also then add a tiny plugin that implements the desired functionality.

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If you didn't want to go this route though I think it would be possible to accomplish this without modifying auto.

1. Create a plugin that taps makeRelease
2. I think this should run after the default behavior. You'll have a reference to the tag that was release
3. Use octokit and that tag to modify the release that was just made to follow your naming

[laughedelic]

I think the hook proposed in this answer would also solve #2124