3 files changed, 73 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/maintainers/build-release-notes.nix b/maintainers/build-release-notes.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9462e33d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/build-release-notes.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{ lib, python3, writeShellScriptBin }:
+
+writeShellScriptBin "build-release-notes" ''
+  exec ${lib.getExe (python3.withPackages (p: [ p.python-frontmatter ]))} \
+    ${./build-release-notes.py} "$@"
+''
diff --git a/maintainers/build-release-notes.py b/maintainers/build-release-notes.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ba645d19a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintainers/build-release-notes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import frontmatter
+import sys
+import pathlib
+import textwrap
+
+GH_BASE = "https://github.com/NixOS/nix"
+FORGEJO_BASE = "https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix"
+GERRIT_BASE = "https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+"
+
+SIGNIFICANCECES = {
+    None: 0,
+    'significant': 10,
+}
+
+def format_link(ident: str, gh_part: str, fj_part: str) -> str:
+    # FIXME: deprecate github as default
+    if ident.isdigit():
+        num, link, base = int(ident), f"#{ident}", f"{GH_BASE}/{gh_part}"
+    elif ident.startswith("gh#"):
+        num, link, base = int(ident[3:]), ident, f"{GH_BASE}/{gh_part}"
+    elif ident.startswith("fj#"):
+        num, link, base = int(ident[3:]), ident, f"{FORGEJO_BASE}/{fj_part}"
+    else:
+        raise Exception("unrecognized reference format", ident)
+    return f"[{link}]({base}/{num})"
+
+def format_issue(issue: str) -> str:
+    return format_link(issue, "issues", "issues")
+def format_pr(pr: str) -> str:
+    return format_link(pr, "pull", "pulls")
+def format_cl(cl: str) -> str:
+    clid = int(cl)
+    return f"[cl/{clid}]({GERRIT_BASE}/{clid})"
+
+paths = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]).glob('*.md')
+entries = []
+for p in paths:
+    try:
+        e = frontmatter.load(p)
+        if 'synopsis' not in e.metadata:
+            raise Exception('missing synposis')
+        unknownKeys = set(e.metadata.keys()) - set(('synopsis', 'cls', 'issues', 'prs', 'significance'))
+        if unknownKeys:
+            raise Exception('unknown keys', unknownKeys)
+        entries.append((p, e))
+    except Exception as e:
+        e.add_note(f"in {p}")
+        raise
+
+for p, entry in sorted(entries, key=lambda e: (-SIGNIFICANCECES[e[1].metadata.get('significance')], e[0])):
+    try:
+        header = entry.metadata['synopsis']
+        links = []
+        links += map(format_issue, str(entry.metadata.get('issues', "")).split())
+        links += map(format_pr, str(entry.metadata.get('prs', "")).split())
+        links += map(format_cl, str(entry.metadata.get('cls', "")).split())
+        if links != []:
+            header += " " + " ".join(links)
+        if header:
+            print(f"- {header}")
+            print()
+        print(textwrap.indent(entry.content, '  '))
+        print()
+    except Exception as e:
+        e.add_note(f"in {p}")
+        raise
diff --git a/maintainers/release-notes b/maintainers/release-notes
index 34cd85a56..c7a4e5074 100755
--- a/maintainers/release-notes
+++ b/maintainers/release-notes
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ section_title="Release $version_full ($DATE)"
   # TODO add minor number, and append?
   echo "# $section_title"
   echo
-  changelog-d doc/manual/rl-next | sed -e 's/ *$//'
+  build-release-notes doc/manual/rl-next
 ) | tee -a $file
 
 log "Wrote $file"