Merge pull request #757 from andrewcbennett/changelog_documentation

Changelog documentation

AUTHORS.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ switch, and thus all their contributions are dual-licensed.
 - Alex Verdyan <verdyan@MASKED>
 - Alex Willmer <alex@moreati.org.uk> (gh: @moreati) **R**
 - Alexander Brugh <alexander.brugh@MASKED> (gh: @abrugh)
+- Andrew Bennett (gh: @andrewcbennett) **D**
 - Andrew Murray <radarhere@MASKED>
 - Bernat Gabor <bgabor8@bloomberg.net> (gh: @gaborbernat) **D**
 - Brandon W Maister <quodlibetor@MASKED>

CONTRIBUTING.md

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 The most important thing to include in your pull request are *tests* - please write one or more tests to cover the behavior you intend your patch to improve. Ideally, tests would use only the public interface - try to get 100% difference coverage using only supported behavior of the API.
 
 #### Changelog
-To keep users abreast of the changes to the module and to give proper credit, `dateutil` maintains a changelog, which is managed by [towncrier](https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier). To add a changelog entry, make a new file called `<issue_no>.<type>.rst`, where `<issue_no>` is the number of the PR you've just made (it's easiest to add the changelog *after* you've created the PR so you'll have this number), and `<type>` is one of the following types:
+To keep users abreast of the changes to the module and to give proper credit, `dateutil` maintains a changelog, which is managed by [towncrier](https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier). To add a changelog entry, make a new file called `<issue_no>.<type>.rst` in the `changelog.d` directory, where `<issue_no>` is the number of the PR you've just made (it's easiest to add the changelog *after* you've created the PR so you'll have this number), and `<type>` is one of the following types:
 
 - `feature`: A new feature, (e.g. a new function, method, attribute, etc)
 - `bugfix`: A fix to a bug

changelog.d/757.doc.rst

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+Improved the contributing documentation to specify where to create changelog files. Contributed by @andrewcbennett (gh pr #757)