Newsfragments location changed with towncrier 25

[jaraco]

I use towncrier with a minimal configuration:

[tool.towncrier]
title_format = "{version}"

As reported in jaraco/skeleton#184, this change causes some consternation with the location changing based on towncrier version.

Downgrading to towncrier 24.x restores the previous behavior.

I do see in the changelog that

The directory configuration option is no longer required. It can now be generated based on value from the name configuration. (#691)

I guess this also means that the name configuration is also implicitly loaded from the package metadata.

Does this mean that if one wants the previous behavior where the news fragments are stored to a consistent directory regardless of the project that one must now specify that directory?

[jaraco]

I also note that the default location is actually incorrect for namespace packages. Consider for example the jaraco.test project. The default towncrier configuration creates newsfragments in ./jaraco.test/newsfragments whereas the package code can be found in ./jaraco/test.

[jaraco]

If possible, I would prefer for towncrier to provide a stable default for news fragments, not something that varies from project to project.

[adiroiban]

Thanks for the report.
I guess that we are missing a few automated tests and unfortunately we ended up with this regression.
I am happy to review a PR that tries to fix this.