ShipNotes: release notes from your git log, written by a 1B model on one CPU core
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Release day goes like this. The code is merged, the tag is pushed, and someone has to tell users what changed. You open the log and you get this: 7c3b9d0 chore(deps): bump vite from 5.2.1 to 5.2.8 3d7f1b2 fix(sync): offline edits were sometimes overwritten when reconnecting c9e04aa refactor: move…
ShipNotes is a service that generates user-friendly release notes from a list of Git commits. Created by a 1B open model running on a single CPU core, the service is hosted on a $5 server and produces Markdown changelogs in English or Simplified Chinese. The model processes commits using a series of rules, including dropping internal commits and selecting a section for each commit, before rewriting one line in Gemma's voice.
The result includes sections for New, Improved, and Fixed changes, along with a "What's new" paragraph suitable for tweets and emails. The service is MIT licensed and consists of about 900 lines of Python code with no dependencies beyond the standard library.
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