Add general documentation for maintainers

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Travis Ralston 6 years ago
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# Changelogs
[Towncrier](https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier) is used to manage the changelog and
keep it up to date. Because of this, updating a changelog is really easy.
## How to update a changelog when releasing an API
1. Ensure you're in your Python 3 virtual environment
2. `cd` your way to the API you're releasing (eg: `cd changelogs/client_server`)
3. Run `towncrier --version "r0.4.0" --name "client-server" --yes` substituting the
variables as approprite. Note that `--name` is required although the value is ignored.
4. Commit the changes and finish the release process.
## How to prepare a changelog for a new API
For this example, we're going to pretend that the `server_server` API doesn't exist.
1. Create the file `changelogs/server_server.rst`
2. Create the folder `changelogs/server_server`
3. In the new folder, create a `pyproject.toml` file with these contents:
```toml
[tool.towncrier]
filename = "../server_server.rst"
directory = "newsfragments"
issue_format = "`#{issue} <https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/{issue}>`_"
title_format = "{version}"
[[tool.towncrier.type]]
directory = "breaking"
name = "Breaking Changes"
showcontent = true
[[tool.towncrier.type]]
directory = "deprecation"
name = "Deprecations"
showcontent = true
[[tool.towncrier.type]]
directory = "new"
name = "New Endpoints"
showcontent = true
[[tool.towncrier.type]]
directory = "feature"
name = "Backwards Compatible Changes"
showcontent = true
[[tool.towncrier.type]]
directory = "clarification"
name = "Spec Clarifications"
showcontent = true
```
4. Use the changelog in whatever RST documents you need

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[tool.towncrier]
filename = "_rendered.rst"
filename = "../client_server.rst"
directory = "newsfragments"
issue_format = "`#{issue} <https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/{issue}>`_"
title_format = "{version}"

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