releasing: Add template for major releases (#9596)

* releasing: Add template for major releases

With pytest 6.0.0, we still used a manual releasing workflow (at least if I
remember correctly), and apparently we never wrote a release announcement
template for major releases. Instead, the minor release template claimed that
the release would contain "breaking changes", which doesn't seem reasonable.
Thus, this adds a new major template based on the former minor template, and
adjusts the latter to only mention fixes and new features instead.

* Update scripts/release.minor.rst

Co-authored-by: Bruno Oliveira <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Bruno Oliveira <[email protected]>

Author: The-Compiler

scripts/prepare-release-pr.py

@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ def prepare_release_pr(
 
     print(f"Branch {Fore.CYAN}{release_branch}{Fore.RESET} created.")
 
-    if prerelease:
+    if is_major:
+        template_name = "release.major.rst"
+    elif prerelease:
         template_name = "release.pre.rst"
     elif is_feature_release:
         template_name = "release.minor.rst"

scripts/release.major.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+pytest-{version}
+=======================================
+
+The pytest team is proud to announce the {version} release!
+
+This release contains new features, improvements, bug fixes, and breaking changes, so users
+are encouraged to take a look at the CHANGELOG carefully:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html
+
+For complete documentation, please visit:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from PyPI via:
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+{contributors}
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

scripts/release.minor.rst

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ pytest-{version}
 
 The pytest team is proud to announce the {version} release!
 
-This release contains new features, improvements, bug fixes, and breaking changes, so users
-are encouraged to take a look at the CHANGELOG carefully:
+This release contains new features, improvements, and bug fixes,
+the full list of changes is available in the changelog:
 
     https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html