How does CPython build it's NEWS or changelog?

[Paul Moore]

On 21 September 2017 at 09:59, Hartmut Goebel
<h.goebel at crazy-compilers.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just discovered that CPython now uses Misc/NEWS.d/next to collect
> changes an there are a lot of Misc/NEWS/*.rst files for the respective
> released version. I'm investigating whether to adopt this for PyInstaller.
>
> What is the tooling for this? Is there some documentation, maybe a
> mailingslist-diskussion or a but-report?

There's a tool "blurb" (available from PyPI) used for this.
Paul