Release branch 2.15.0 alpha 0

doc/whatsnew/2/2.15/index.rst

@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@
 Summary -- Release highlights
 =============================
 
-* We improved ``pylint``'s handling of namespace packages. More packages should be
-  linted without resorting to using the ``-recursive=y`` option.
+In pylint 2.15.0, we added a new check ``missing-timeout`` to warn of
+default timeout values that could cause a program to be hanging indefinitely.
+
+>e improved ``pylint``'s handling of namespace packages. More packages should
+be linted without resorting to using the ``-recursive=y`` option.
 
 .. towncrier release notes start

doc/whatsnew/fragments/6974.internal

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+We changed the way we handle the changelog internally by using towncrier.
+If you're a contributor you won't have to fix merge conflicts in the
+changelog anymore.
+
+Closes #6974

examples/pylintrc

@@ -44,13 +44,15 @@ fail-under=10
 # Files or directories to be skipped. They should be base names, not paths.
 ignore=CVS
 
-# Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the ignore-list. The
-# regex matches against paths and can be in Posix or Windows format.
+# Add files or directories matching the regular expressions patterns to the
+# ignore-list. The regex matches against paths and can be in Posix or Windows
+# format. Because '\' represents the directory delimiter on Windows systems, it
+# can't be used as an escape character.
 ignore-paths=
 
-# Files or directories matching the regex patterns are skipped. The regex
-# matches against base names, not paths. The default value ignores Emacs file
-# locks
+# Files or directories matching the regular expression patterns are skipped.
+# The regex matches against base names, not paths. The default value ignores
+# Emacs file locks
 ignore-patterns=^\.#
 
 # List of module names for which member attributes should not be checked
@@ -160,6 +162,13 @@ disable=raw-checker-failed,
 enable=c-extension-no-member
 
 
+[METHOD_ARGS]
+
+# List of qualified names (i.e., library.method) which require a timeout
+# parameter e.g. 'requests.api.get,requests.api.post'
+timeout-methods=requests.api.delete,requests.api.get,requests.api.head,requests.api.options,requests.api.patch,requests.api.post,requests.api.put,requests.api.request
+
+
 [EXCEPTIONS]
 
 # Exceptions that will emit a warning when caught.

examples/pyproject.toml

@@ -34,12 +34,15 @@ fail-under = 10
 # Files or directories to be skipped. They should be base names, not paths.
 ignore = ["CVS"]
 
-# Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the ignore-list. The
-# regex matches against paths and can be in Posix or Windows format.
+# Add files or directories matching the regular expressions patterns to the
+# ignore-list. The regex matches against paths and can be in Posix or Windows
+# format. Because '\' represents the directory delimiter on Windows systems, it
+# can't be used as an escape character.
 # ignore-paths =
 
-# Files or directories matching the regex patterns are skipped. The regex matches
-# against base names, not paths. The default value ignores Emacs file locks
+# Files or directories matching the regular expression patterns are skipped. The
+# regex matches against base names, not paths. The default value ignores Emacs
+# file locks
 ignore-patterns = ["^\\.#"]
 
 # List of module names for which member attributes should not be checked (useful
@@ -353,6 +356,11 @@ disable = ["raw-checker-failed", "bad-inline-option", "locally-disabled", "file-
 # should appear only once). See also the "--disable" option for examples.
 enable = ["c-extension-no-member"]
 
+[tool.pylint.method_args]
+# List of qualified names (i.e., library.method) which require a timeout
+# parameter e.g. 'requests.api.get,requests.api.post'
+timeout-methods = ["requests.api.delete", "requests.api.get", "requests.api.head", "requests.api.options", "requests.api.patch", "requests.api.post", "requests.api.put", "requests.api.request"]
+
 [tool.pylint.miscellaneous]
 # List of note tags to take in consideration, separated by a comma.
 notes = ["FIXME", "XXX", "TODO"]

pylint/__pkginfo__.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "2.15.0-dev0"
+__version__ = "2.15.0-a0"
 
 
 def get_numversion_from_version(v: str) -> tuple[int, int, int]:

script/.contributors_aliases.json

@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@
     "mails": ["[email protected]"],
     "name": "Allan Chandler"
   },
+  "<[email protected]>": {
+    "mails": ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"],
+    "name": "Adam Williamson"
+  },
   "[email protected]": {
     "mails": ["[email protected]"],
     "name": "Adrien Di Mascio"

tbump.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 github_url = "https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint"
 
 [version]
-current = "2.15.0-dev0"
+current = "2.15.0-a0"
 regex = '''
 ^(?P<major>0|[1-9]\d*)
 \.