contributing: Add monthly financial supporters to release notes (#3883)

The generated release notes now contain members of supporters tier on Open Collective. We want to highlight financial contributions in the release notes. Monthly supporters seem like a fitting category in context of release. Current (draft) release notes are already updated.

The list is randomized when generated. Images are not included because that would require generating content for the missing images and making them circular (more work and circular did not work for me).

They are included under a heading at the end of highlights section, so not at the end, but not at the very beginning either.

Also: Specify number of highlight items. Add heading for new addons. Use title case. Use 'tools' not 'modules' for heading. Add requests as pip dependency to get the URL

.github/workflows/additional_checks.yml

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Generate release notes using git log
         run: |
-          python -m pip install PyYAML
+          python -m pip install PyYAML requests
           # Git works without any special permissions.
           # Using current branch or the branch against the PR is open.
           # Using the last 30 commits (for branches, tags, and PRs).

utils/generate_release_notes.py

@@ -9,12 +9,14 @@
 import csv
 import itertools
 import json
+import random
 import re
 import subprocess
 import sys
 from collections import defaultdict
 from pathlib import Path
 
+import requests
 import yaml
 
 PRETTY_TEMPLATE = (
@@ -128,6 +130,20 @@ def binder_badge(tag):
     return f"[![Binder]({binder_image_url})]({binder_url})"
 
 
+def print_support(file=None):
+    url = "https://opencollective.com/grass/tiers/supporter/all.json"
+    response = requests.get(url=url)
+    data = response.json()
+    if data:
+        print_section_heading_3("Monthly Financial Supporters", file=file)
+        random.shuffle(data)
+        supporters = []
+        for member in data:
+            supporters.append(f"""[{member['name']}]({member['profile']})""")
+        print(", ".join(supporters))
+        print("")
+
+
 def adjust_after(lines):
     """Adjust new contributor lines in the last part of the generated notes"""
     bot_file = Path("utils") / "known_bot_names.txt"
@@ -170,7 +186,13 @@ def print_notes(
     if before:
         print(before)
     print_section_heading_2("Highlights", file=file)
-    print("* _Put handcrafted list of items here._\n")
+    print("* _Put handcrafted list of 2-15 items here._\n")
+    print_section_heading_2("New Addon Tools", file=file)
+    print(
+        "* _Put here a list of new addos since last release "
+        "or delete the section if there are none._\n"
+    )
+    print_support(file=file)
     print_section_heading_2("What's Changed", file=file)
     changes_by_category = split_to_categories(changes, categories=categories)
     print_by_category(changes_by_category, categories=categories, file=file)

utils/release.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 notes:
   categories:
-    - title: Modules
+    - title: Tools
       regexp: '((d|db|g|i|m|ps|r|r3|t|v)\.[^ ]*)(, (d|db|g|i|m|ps|r|r3|t|v)\.[^ ]*)?: |(modules|tools|temporal): '
 
     - title: Graphical User Interface