[ARROW-13483] [Release][Dev] Port the release note generation script to archery

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Developer Tools
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29145
• Assignee: Krisztian Szucs
• Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
• Created: 28/Jul/21 22:42
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:33
• Resolved: 31/Mar/22 11:27

Description

Archery already have a couple of utilities to parse commits between revisions and access various metadata from git. Implementing it python would make it more portable (e.g. date function is different from GNU date on macOS).

We can more easily filter out the noisy author/committer data as well.