Prepare providers release 2026-01-13

[jscheffl]

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...at least as long as Breeze is not using AI to support maintainers :-D

[jscheffl]

@eladkal or @potiuk need some providers managers power knowledge - some providers I have marked with "Not docs only" and then the other fixes were hidden from classification such that docs only update is made. Others marked with docs only ( because of year change in NOTICE) were docs only but not rendered changelogs... for consistency do I need to make all providers with NOTICE changes being a release (forced) to distribute or shall I downgrade the "docs only" releases to the same that are just for NOTICE?

[dheerajturaga]

Verified changes to edge3 and celery. Test failure was unrelated hence I attempted to rerun.

[potiuk]

@eladkal or @potiuk need some providers managers power knowledge - some providers I have marked with "Not docs only" and then the other fixes were hidden from classification such that docs only update is made. Others marked with docs only ( because of year change in NOTICE) were docs only but not rendered changelogs... for consistency do I need to make all providers with NOTICE changes being a release (forced) to distribute or shall I downgrade the "docs only" releases to the same that are just for NOTICE?

Sorry for late notice - I was away and disconnected last few days - and I am now struck with cold and trying to catch up :)

Not sure if I understand :) -> but let me rephrase and see if I got it right:

• when you selected "docs-only" -> the hash commit of the docs changed and no changelog was modified, no release is going to happen (so far so good)
• when you selected not docs only and hid the others, there is a release (patchlevel) but it has "Docs-only" section in changelog

Correct?

If so - that's an interesting question - but I think the problem is that NOTICE change is not doc-only - it's a misc change - i.e. this change is actually going to change the released distribution (it will have updated NOTICE in metadata.

"Doc-only" changes are changes that only impact generated documentation - not the released package. In this case NOTICE change actually changes the released distribution so we should make it Misc.

[potiuk]

Hmm. Sorry for doing that, but I think we should release literally all providers now - the NOTICE change is not really a "doc-only" change - it's a change that affects released distributions (NOTICE is part of meta-data) and I think "all" providers should be rleeased.

[jscheffl]

Verified changes to edge3 and celery. Test failure was unrelated hence I attempted to rerun.

That was a bit too early. I need to officially cut the release (not the docs only) and then will call for VOTE for testing!

[jscheffl]

@potiuk ditched previous work and re-generated ALL from scratch - second pass review please!