Update news file

[Davidy22]

Prep for release

[mlouielu]

I believe this is cause by auto generated?

[Davidy22]

Trimming those out is going to get tiresome, should maybe go into the release notes files sometime and remove the bits that those are being taken from. Or switch to one of the newer fangled release notes generators that use commit messages maybe. Removed these for now.

[Davidy22]

Alright for now I'm just going to tag the release and people can get the changelog from here, not going to wait another 4 days for a news file change to get approved

[Davidy22]

Since this is overdue for 3.8.1 anyways, I'm going to take this chance to reform this PR into cutting those annoying none lines that I've added before

[Davidy22]

@mlouielu This and a bunch of other PRs have been sitting for two weeks, can they get looked at eventually?

@gsemet can we get the maintainer transition progressed a little bit? Commits get deadlocked for weeks because we can't merge our own work, and a litany of external tools still need to be troubleshot by telegraph because we can't access them. How's the progress on readthedocs?

[gsemet]

Hi. You are pretty much autonomous on the review and merge of the patches, I do not see what you would like more ? I can pass you as administrator of the site so you can merge your patches after a few days without reviews.
Most of the time I do not get the notification so you need to @ me manually or I do not see the MR…
For the release process, you (both of you actually) need to rework it and improve it.

[gsemet]

Admin permission granted

[Davidy22]

The main peeve was waiting indeterminate amounts of time for my code changes to get merged or just responded to making it difficult to actively work on Guake because anything I write just sits inert if the other two people who can review don't log into github. Thanks for the permissions, @mlouielu may need them too if I go absentee because he can't get anything into the code either without a reviewer.

Been throwing attempts at the automated release process periodically, you can see where I'm at and my prior output here, if anyone's got it figured out I'm very interested in seeing what they got.

[gsemet]

With poetry and poetry-dynamic-versioning, things are easier. It replaces pipenv and pbr, so package are more « standard ».
The good added value would be to have a complete release triggered on a single tag (without the need to update manually the release note,…). For example we put a tag and the release pipeline use the GitHub api to put the release description. We simply edit it after and add a little intro…

[Davidy22]

Getting fairly tempted to do the poetry switch to try solve this, will try that if I still can't make it work.

[Davidy22]

So I am getting a little frustrated with this, but it's more to do with pytest really than pipenv I think. Might give it a rest till my next attempt, but all my failed runs are probably visible on my branch