[chore] added a new chloggen to track changes to the contrib

.github/workflows/changelog-update.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+name: Update changelog
+
+on:
+  pull_request_review:
+    types: [ submitted ]
+jobs:
+  update:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    permissions:
+      # Give the default GITHUB_TOKEN write permission to commit and push the
+      # updated CHANGELOG-AWS.md back to the repository.
+      # https://github.blog/changelog/2023-02-02-github-actions-updating-the-default-github_token-permissions-to-read-only/
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout action
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name : checkout
+        run : |
+          git config --global user.name 'Github Action'
+          git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
+      - name: Set up Go 1.x
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
+        with:
+          go-version: ~1.21.1
+          cache: false
+      - name: make update changelog
+        run: make chlog-update-aws
+      - name: switching from HTTPS to SSH
+        run: git remote set-url origin https://github.com/amazon-contributing/opentelemetry-collector-contrib.git
+      - name: check for changes
+        run: |
+          git branch
+          git status
+      - name: stage changed files
+        run: git add ./CHANGELOG-AWS.md
+      - name: commit changed files
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name 'Github Action'
+          git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
+          git commit -m "Auto updating changelog-aws.md"
+      - name: pull from master
+        run: |
+          git remote -v
+          git pull
+      - name: push code to aws-cwa-dev
+        run: git push origin aws-cwa-dev

.github/workflows/changelog.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This action requires that any PR targeting the main branch should add a
+# This action requires that any PR targeting the aws-cwa-dev branch should add a
 # yaml file to the ./.chloggen/ directory. If a CHANGELOG entry is not required,
 # or if performing maintance on the Changelog, add either \"[chore]\" to the title of
 # the pull request or add the \"Skip Changelog\" label to disable this action.

CONTRIBUTING-AWS.md

@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ The [CHANGELOG-AWS.md](./CHANGELOG-AWS.md) files in this repo is autogenerated f
 
 The name of your file must be unique since the last release.
 
-During the collector release process, all `./chloggen-aws/*.yaml` files are transcribed into `CHANGELOG-aws.md` and then deleted.
-
+Once the PR has been approved and submitted the changelog-update.yml gets auto trigger to update the changelog-aws.md file.
 **Recommended Steps**
 1. Create an entry file using `make chlog-new-aws`. This generates a file based on your current branch (e.g. `./.chloggen-aws/my-branch.yaml`)
 2. Fill in all fields in the new file

Makefile

@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ chlog-preview-aws: $(CHLOGGEN)
 
 .PHONY: chlog-update-aws
 chlog-update-aws: $(CHLOGGEN)
-	$(CHLOGGEN) update --config $(CHLOGGEN_CONFIG_AWS) --version $(VERSION)
+	$(CHLOGGEN) update --config $(CHLOGGEN_CONFIG_AWS) --version `date +'%y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S'`
 
 .PHONY: genotelcontribcol
 genotelcontribcol: $(BUILDER)