Allow filtering releases by package name (improve monorepo support)

[rossng]

The problem

In the JavaScript/TypeScript world, it's increasingly common for projects to have a single 'monorepo' from which multiple packages can be published independently. The version number may or may not be synchronised between packages.

I often need to review the release notes for the last few versions of a single package. For example, perhaps something has broken and I need to figure out when it might have happened. Or I am doing package upgrades and I want to scan through the changelog to identify any changes that might cause problems.

Unfortunately this is quite difficult with GitHub's Releases list today. Releases for all the different packages (often dozens!) are muxed together into a single list, which makes it really difficult to quickly retrieve the information I need.

Try-at-home exercise

Looking at the list of releases for the Atlassian changesets project, find what changes were made in the last three releases of the @changesets/cli package.

Some ideas

• Parse tag names that fit certain common formats. For example, @<scope>/<package-name>@<semver>
• Make it possible to filter the releases list by the parsed package name

Related suggestions

#5286

[ethomson]

This is good feedback - tagging @MylesBorins (who's been looking after releases and has an interest in monorepos) so that he can capture this feedback.

[medmunds]

Here's another example: https://github.com/lit/lit/releases.

Even allowing search filters on a tag prefix or glob or exact substring would solve a lot of the problem: tag:lit@* or tag:"lit@" or similar.

[pavinduLakshan]

Is there any update on this? 👀

[f15u]

+1.

Watching releases for a repository that releases multiple packages (eg https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/releases) it's impossible to find a package and see releases for it.

A simple filter on the name lie package-name@* would be a massive improvement.

[nebuk89]

Hmmm good feedback and mono repo support is still something we need to improve. I will add this to our backlog/check it's there :)

[aqeelat]

This is badly needed. Another example is https://github.com/clerk/javascript/releases