towncrier

Manage the release notes for your project. (by twisted)

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  • Changelog-Driven Releases
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
    I don't really like writing the change log automatically from commits. I think those both have a slightly different audience and thus need different wording.

    I know the frustration of merge conflicts on the change log file.

    Right now, I'm creating change logs by hand which is time consuming to do on release time. I'm considering switching to using towncrier or something similar, where you have a changes dir with one file per change for creating change logs --> https://towncrier.readthedocs.io/

  • towncrier VS cf_changelog - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 10 Jan 2024
  • What are some examples of good release notes from open source projects that you have come across?
    3 projects | /r/opensource | 17 Apr 2023
    Here is an example of another decent one. Not perfect, but it is generated with TownCrier, so it is easy to maintain.
  • The Subtle Art of the Changelog
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2023
    We used to... somewhat attempt manual changelogs. Every time it came to a release the release manager would ask around for what the key changes were, and we usually ended up with only a couple of entries.

    Now, we use https://github.com/twisted/towncrier . Every change goes through pull requests, and every PR must have a newsfragment file - and we enforce this with a test that fails if it isn't present (with convenience functions of rewriting the number to match the PR if you name the news file XXX.{category}). If it's not a user-facing change, then we just have a category that is ignored.

    On releases (or on individual PRS along the way), the release manager generates the changelog, but also edits them into a relatively coherent style (or rewrites developers news fragments along the way).

    Every change has a note written aimed at the user. Every entry in the changelog has a link to the relevant PR or commit. We have much better changelogs now.

  • Changie - Automated Changelog Tool
    5 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2021
    Twisted's Town Crier is a generic tool
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