Examples of projects using strict commit message conventions to auto generate changelogs

• https://github.com/angular/angular.js
• https://github.com/karma-runner/karma
• https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror
• https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js

Possible commit message conventions

• angular
• atom
• codemirror
• ember
• eslint
• express
• jquery
• jshint

Eco system in npm land

• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog-core
• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-github-releaser
• https://github.com/btford/grunt-conventional-changelog
• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/gulp-conventional-changelog
• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/atom-conventional-changelog
• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog-cli
• https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli
• https://github.com/ajoslin/angular-precommit
• https://github.com/marionebl/conventional-changelog-lint
• https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version