John T. Wodder II

@yarikoptic Yes, `auto shipit` has a `--no-changelog` option to skip creating the changelog.

@yarikoptic auto only ever calculates the version based on PR labels.

@yarikoptic First off, I feel like mentioning [towncrier](https://pypi.org/project/towncrier/) as a possible alternative to scriv. The two tools seem to have the same basic behavior, and I'm not sure how they...

@yarikoptic @mih For generating a `changelog.d/` snippet automatically, what should the filename of the snippet be, and what exactly should be (the template for) its contents?

@yarikoptic @mih * What exactly should "`cat`" be set to in the autogenerated snippets? * Other than that, should the autogenerated snippets look like this? ``` - {{pr_title}}. Fixes {{closed_issue_links|join(",...

@yarikoptic What should the snippet body be when the PR doesn't close any issues?

@yarikoptic Problem: Adding a file to the PR means pushing to the datalad fork from which the PR originated. As far as I can tell, and based on [this thread](https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/455),...

@yarikoptic Testing indicates that, even if `--no-changelog` is passed to auto in order to keep it from modifying the CHANGELOG file, it still generates a changelog for use as the...

@yarikoptic > If you need to push some skeleton workflow into repo right in target maint branch - go ahead! alternatively can test against your own clone/sample repo (and while...

@yarikoptic I've gotten the changelog snippet autogeneration to work; PR at https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/6981.