Python Test | Using Towncrier to Keep a Changelog

Hynek joins the show to discuss towncrier.

At the top of the towncrier documentation, it says "towncrier is a utility to produce useful, summarized news files (also known as changelogs) for your project."

Towncrier is used by "Twisted, pytest, pip, BuildBot, and attrs, among others."

This is the last of 3 episodes focused on keeping a CHANGELOG.

Episode 200 kicked off the series with keepachangelog.com and Olivier Lacan
In 201 we had Ned Batchelder discussing scriv.

Special Guest: Hynek Schlawack.

Links:

Towncrier docs
How to Keep a Changelog in Markdown - Towncrier docs
Keep a Changelog
structlog/CHANGELOG.md — Example of manually edited changelog.
hatch-fancy-pypi-readme
MyST Markdown
hatchling

Creators & Guests

Host

Brian Okken

Software Engineer, also on Python Bytes and Python People podcasts

Guest

Hynek Schlawack

Hynek is a Python & Go developer, DevOps engineer, blogger, public speaker, PSF fellow, and creator of attrs. He's also the maintainer of structlog and contributor to CPython and Twisted.

What is Python Test?

Practical automated testing for software engineers using Python.
Mostly. But also so much more.