mkdocs extension to autogenerate changelog from github

To see the contribution guidelines, see docs/source/developing/index.md.

Create a virtual environment. Install the package using pip install -e .[dev]

Then add code to the package as appropriate - submodules can be created under src/mkdocs_github_changelog Tests can be added to the tests folder

There are a set of CI checks:

• lint: nox -t lint
• test: nox -t test
• build: nox -t build

specific subfolders can be passed to the test tag in nox: nox -t test -- <subfolder1> <subfolder2>

It is important to track and version code, and to aid that with the python packages and models, setuptools_scm is used. This links the version reported at __version__ to the git tag (+ commit hash if appropriate), to reduce the amount of places that need editing when changing versions.

For describing versions we are using semantic versioning <major>.<minor>.<patch>. Increment the:

• <major> version when you make incompatible API changes,
• <minor> version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
• <patch> version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

There are also codes for pre-releases and other descriptions (see https://semver.org/)

To create a version, use git tag <major>.<minor>.<patch> and then make sure to push that tag with git push origin <major>.<minor>.<patch>, or an equivalent tagging tool (e.g. Github releases).

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