proxy.py/docs/changelog-fragments.d

Adding change notes with your PRs

It is very important to maintain a log for news of how updating to the new version of the software will affect end-users. This is why we enforce collection of the change fragment files in pull requests as per Towncrier philosophy.

The idea is that when somebody makes a change, they must record the bits that would affect end-users only including information that would be useful to them. Then, when the maintainers publish a new release, they'll automatically use these records to compose a change log for the respective version. It is important to understand that including unnecessary low-level implementation related details generates noise that is not particularly useful to the end-users most of the time. And so such details should be recorded in the Git history rather than a changelog.

Alright! So how do I add a news fragment?

To submit a change note about your PR, add a text file into the docs/changelog-fragments.d/ folder. It should contain an explanation of what applying this PR will change in the way end-users interact with the project. One sentence is usually enough but feel free to add as many details as you feel necessary for the users to understand what it means.

Use the past tense for the text in your fragment because, combined with others, it will be a part of the "news digest" telling the readers what changed in a specific version of the library since the previous version. You should also use MyST Markdown syntax for highlighting code (inline or block), linking parts of the docs or external sites. At the end, sign your change note by adding -- by {user}`github-username (replace github-username with your own!).

Finally, name your file following the convention that Towncrier understands: it should start with the number of an issue or a PR followed by a dot, then add a patch type, like feature, bugfix, doc, misc etc., and add .md as a suffix. If you need to add more than one fragment, you may add an optional sequence number (delimited with another period) between the type and the suffix.

Examples for changelog entries adding to your Pull Requests

File docs/changelog-fragments.d/112.doc.md:

Added a `{user}` role to Sphinx config -- by {user}`webknjaz`

File docs/changelog-fragments.d/105.feature.md:

Added the support for keyboard-authentication method
-- by {user}`Qalthos`

File docs/changelog-fragments.d/57.bugfix.md:

Fixed flaky SEGFAULTs in `pylibsshext.channel.Channel.exec_command()`
calls -- by {user}`ganeshrn`

See `pyproject.toml` for all available categories
(`tool.towncrier.type`).