The problem

You use conventional-changelog, but you squash pull requests (PRs). So you want PR titles to match the same semantics as your conventional changelog requirements. (If you want a bot to lint against your commit messages instead of the PR title, then check out ahmed-taj/commitlint-bot!)

This solution

commitlintbot is a bot that will update your pull request's commit status based on your PR's title satisfying the requirements of your conventional-changelog configuration. It runs on now.sh, and receives github webhooks and updates a commit status via the Github API.

Configuration

• A default commitlint config will be applied.
  • However if you have a commitlint.config.js in the root of the repo, that will be used instead. The other config formats (.commitlintrc.js, .commitlintrc.json, .commitlintrc.yml) are not supported.
• ~Additionally, if you have a .cz-config.js in the root of your repo, that will be used to enforce your custom scopes & types.~ This is broken ATM. <3

Installation

• Setup webhook.
  • https://commitlintbot.now.sh
  • application/json
  • Secret... not implemented. :|
  • Choose individual events: Pull request
  • Add.
• If you want to use this in an organization and the org has fairly locked down permissions, org owners will need to approve the use of the app (via OAuth client_id): https://github.com/settings/connections/applications/e3737bbd21bc66fb0a18

Now, things should be pretty automatic.

Also

• If you want to run your own.. just deploy to now with now -e GHTOKEN=yourgithubpersonalaccesstoken.

LICENSE

MIT