ci: Implement conventional commit validation

ci: Implement conventional commit validation

ci: Implement conventional commit validation

.azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -30,9 +30,15 @@ variables:
 - template: build/variables.yml
 
 stages:
+- stage: Commit_Validation
+  dependsOn: []
+  jobs:
+    - template: build/stage-commit-validation.yaml
+
 #-if false
 # This special if is used to remove those Dotnet_New stages for generated application.
 - stage: Dotnet_New_GeneratedApp
+  dependsOn: Commit_Validation
   jobs:
   - template: .template.config/build/stage-donetnew.yaml
 
@@ -62,9 +68,7 @@ stages:
 
 #-endif
 - stage: Build_Staging
-#-if false
-  dependsOn: []
-#-endif
+  dependsOn: Commit_Validation
   jobs:
   - template: build/stage-build.yml
     parameters:

build/stage-commit-validation.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# This stage is responsible for running the template to validate the commits of the PR
+jobs:
+  - job: OnWindows_ValidateCommits
+    pool:
+      vmImage : $(windowsHostedAgentImage)
+    steps:
+      - template: templates/validate-commits.yaml

build/templates/validate-commits.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# This template is used to validate that the commit messages follow the Conventional Commits specification (https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/).
+# Consider placing this at the beginning of the build pipeline to ensure that the commits are valid before proceeding with longer build steps.
+steps:
+  - task: CommitMessageValidator@1
+    condition: and(succeeded(), eq(variables['Build.Reason'], 'PullRequest'))
+    inputs:
+      regExPattern: '^(build|chore|ci|docs|feat|fix|perf|refactor|revert|style|test){1}(\([\w\.\-\p{Extended_Pictographic}]+\))?(!)?: ([\w \p{Extended_Pictographic}])+([\s\S]*)'
+      regExFlags: "um"
+      allCommitsMustMatch: true
+      prMode: true
+    displayName: 'Validate Commit Messages'