Query tags instead of releases

[ruimarinho]

The GitHub release should be the final destination of the changelog, not it's source. We should use tags instead.

[rplopes]

We should probably discuss this more in depth.

The problem with tags is that Github's API doesn't return their creation dates, so it wouldn't be possible to do the match between PRs and tags as we currently do with PRs and releases. Would probably need more investigation.

[nunofgs]

@rplopes I was just bitten by this. I too would like to see this repo use tags instead of releases.

It might be possible using Github's graphql API. We can query for tags and retrieve the associated commit author date.

[Americas]

This issue should be revisited, but the last time I checked (it was some time ago), there was still no link between a tag and the date it was created, making this change impossible.