[chloggen] Sort changelog entries alphabetically by component

.chloggen/alphabetical-changelog-entries.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. crosslink)
+component: chloggen
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Sort changelog entries lexicographically based on their component field
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1276]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:

chloggen/cmd/testdata/all_change_types_alphabetical/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Changelog
+
+<!-- next version -->
+
+## v0.45.0
+
+### 💡 Enhancements 💡
+
+- `receiver/a`: Some change (#1)
+- `receiver/aa`: Some other change for aa (#2)
+- `receiver/b`: Some other change (#3)
+- `receiver/bb`: One more bb change (#4)
+
+## v0.44.0
+
+### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
+
+- `prometheusexporter`: Automatically rename metrics with units to follow Prometheus naming convention (#8950)
+
+### 💡 Enhancements 💡
+
+- `filterprocessor`: Ability to filter `Spans` (#6341)
+- `flinkmetricsreceiver`: add attribute values to metadata #11520
+
+### 🧰 Bug fixes 🧰
+
+- `redactionprocessor`: respect allow_all_keys configuration (#11542)

chloggen/cmd/update.go

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
@@ -48,6 +49,10 @@ func updateCmd() *cobra.Command {
 
 			for changeLogKey, entries := range entriesByChangelog {
 
+				slices.SortFunc(entries, func(a, b *chlog.Entry) int {
+					return strings.Compare(a.Component, b.Component)
+				})
+
 				if componentFilter != "" {
 					filteredEntries := make([]*chlog.Entry, 0, len(entries))
 					for _, e := range entries {

chloggen/cmd/update_test.go

@@ -252,6 +252,36 @@ func TestUpdate(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			componentFilter: "receiver/foob",
 		},
+		{
+			name: "all_change_types_alphabetical",
+			entries: []*chlog.Entry{
+				{
+					ChangeType: "enhancement",
+					Component:  "receiver/a",
+					Note:       "Some change",
+					Issues:     []int{1},
+				},
+				{
+					ChangeType: "enhancement",
+					Component:  "receiver/bb",
+					Note:       "One more bb change",
+					Issues:     []int{4},
+				},
+				{
+					ChangeType: "enhancement",
+					Component:  "receiver/b",
+					Note:       "Some other change",
+					Issues:     []int{3},
+				},
+				{
+					ChangeType: "enhancement",
+					Component:  "receiver/aa",
+					Note:       "Some other change for aa",
+					Issues:     []int{2},
+				},
+			},
+			version: "v0.45.0",
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, tc := range tests {