Changelog of a private GitLab repository readable?

[mrclrchtr]

Is it possible to read the CHANGELOG file of a private GitLab repository with a java library (maven)?
Even better would be to be able to read the release like in GitHub.

We create a tag with release information.Then the pipeline with maven builds the libs in a multi module project and these are published to the gitlab maven repository in the project.

We also maintain a CHANGELOG file in the root of the project.

SCM is defined in the root pom:

  <scm>
        <connection>scm:git:https://gitlab.com/xxx/yyy/zzz.git</connection>
        <url>https://gitlab.com/xxx/yyy/zzz</url>
        <developerConnection>scm:git:[email protected]:xxx/yyy/zzz.git</developerConnection>
    </scm>

In the projects where the libs are used, PRs are created with the corresponding version updates. However, no release notes are displayed.

(Self Hosted Configuration)

[rarkins]

I would have expected it to work if the token you use also has access to the repo in question. Can you maybe create a new test repo with just one dependency and then log it at debug level to see what info it gives us?

[rarkins]

I normally see just the plain project/repo without deep paths. We could maybe extract in our manager extract function

[mrclrchtr]

Okay, is there anything I can do?

For your information: It is about a lib in a multi module project. SCM is only defined in the root project. In the pom.xml of the lib there is no SCM entry. Should I add the entry explicitly in the child project?

[mrclrchtr]

Ok, I just tried it and that seems to be the problem. In the child project where SCM is explicitly defined, the release notes are displayed. In the module without SCM not.

[rarkins]

In that case I think it's a known issue: #6742

[mrclrchtr]

Ok, thanks for your help!