focalboard/noticegen
Akis Maziotis 111d741ad7
[feat] Notice.txt generation configuration
We created a tool to automatically generate NOTICE.txt from project folders. And there is a scheduled pipeline configured to run at every Monday which creates a PR if there is a change.
We selected noticegen directory to store the configuration files.

Tool repo: https://github.com/mattermost/notice-file-generator

Ticket: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/CLD-3697
Signed-off-by: Akis Maziotis <akis.maziotis@mattermost.com>
2022-07-19 09:20:39 +03:00
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config.yaml [feat] Notice.txt generation configuration 2022-07-19 09:20:39 +03:00
Readme.md [feat] Notice.txt generation configuration 2022-07-19 09:20:39 +03:00

Notice.txt File Configuration

We are automatically generating Notice.txt by using first-level dependencies of the project. The related pipeline uses config.yaml stored in this folder.

Configuration

Sample:

title: "Mattermost Playbooks"
copyright: "©2015-present Mattermost, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  See LICENSE for license information."
description: "This document includes a list of open source components used in Mattermost Playbooks, including those that have been modified."
search:
  - "go.mod"
  - "client/go.mod"
dependencies: []
devDependencies: []
Field Type Purpose
title string Field content will be used as a title of the application. See first line of NOTICE.txt file.
copyright string Field content will be used as a copyright message. See second line of NOTICE.txt file.
description string Field content will be used as notice file description. See third line of NOTICE.txt file.
dependencies array If any dependency name mentioned, it will be automatically added even if it is not a first-level dependency.
devDependencies array If any dependency name mentioned, it will be added when it is referenced in devDependency section.
search array Pipeline will search for package.json/go.mod files mentioned here. Globstar format is supported ie. x/**/go.mod.