Bitbucket Cloud: include Release Notes in Renovate PRs

[einarpehrson]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

For libraries hosted on Bitbucket Cloud, populate the Release Notes section in Renovate PRs.

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

No

[HonkingGoose]

I don't see release note fetching listed in the list of unsupported platform features for BitBucket Cloud, so I guess it should work if set up correctly.

Did you create a GitHub.com token to fetch the release notes? Read the GitHub.com token for release notes page in our docs.

This issue also discusses release note fetching on BitBucket Cloud:

• Support changelogs from bitbucket-server #3903

[einarpehrson]

@HonkingGoose thanks for having a look at this so quickly :)

As you say, Bitbucket Cloud: Unsupported platform features/concepts doesn't mention it, nor does Renovate core features not supported on all platforms.

But the code for the changelog worker suggests that only GitHub and GitLab are supported. I can't find any implementation for other platforms.

A GitHub token shouldn't be needed here. For scenarios where a repository hosted on Bitbucket Cloud receives a Renovate PR with an upgrade for a dependency also hosted on Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub is not involved in any way.

[viceice]

• blocked by Major overhaul of changelog retrieval #14138

[HonkingGoose]

@HonkingGoose thanks for having a look at this so quickly :)

Cheers! 😄

As you say, Bitbucket Cloud: Unsupported platform features/concepts doesn't mention it, nor does Renovate core features not supported on all platforms.

But the code for the changelog worker suggests that only GitHub and GitLab are supported. I can't find any implementation for other platforms.

@einarpehrson You're right, it looks like we don't support fetching release notes on Bitbucket Cloud at all. You should be able to find out by reading the docs though, instead of needing to go search in the code. I created a issue to improve the docs, see: #14971. 😉

A GitHub token shouldn't be needed here. For scenarios where a repository hosted on Bitbucket Cloud receives a Renovate PR with an upgrade for a dependency also hosted on Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub is not involved in any way.

Our docs still recommend that you add a GitHub.com token anyway ¹. I guess if you're fully on Bitbucket with both the bot and your dependencies that Renovate won't need a GitHub.com token, but you might still have dependencies with changelogs from GitHub without realizing it. I'll let @rarkins check me on this. 😉

Footnotes

1. https://docs.renovatebot.com/getting-started/running/#githubcom-token-for-release-notes ↩

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[setchy]

@rarkins @viceice - this topic came up at my org today.

We'd be interest in leaning-in add contributing support for fetching changelogs from platform:bitbucket.

Would that be of interested?

Question for you both: how important is the resolving #14138 in order to progress the bitbucket support in the near-term?

[rarkins]

I'm ok with you adding it prior. I think #14138 may take a very long time to get done

[viceice]

@setchy If you start implementing it please try to make the new code as reusable as possible, so the we improve exiting stuff easier. 🤗

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