We explore making the general layout more configurable as an option but supporting this feature would require introducing variables into the configuration which was something that was out of scope for this iteration. The good news is that we have built the infrastructure in such a way that we could support this in the future!

Regarding selecting the tag automatically… right now we don’t do anything with regards to creating release commits and in many cases for distributed software there are files (like package.json) that need to be updated with the new tag as part of the release. There are also a large number of versioning schemes folks use including semver, pep440, and calver… and the possibility of doing the wrong thing is quite high. As releases are one of the most important part of the software development process we didn’t want to invest in a feature that had a high probability of having lots of incorrect results.