Bump pylint to 2.15.0, update changelog (pylint-dev#7355)

* Add Marc Byrne to the maintainer team

Author: Pierre-Sassoulas

doc/whatsnew/2/2.15/index.rst

@@ -35,171 +35,6 @@ What's new in Pylint 2.15.0?
 Release date: 2022-08-26
 
 
-New Checks
-----------
-
-- Added new checker ``missing-timeout`` to warn of default timeout values that could cause
-  a program to be hanging indefinitely.
-
-  Refs #6780 (`#6780 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6780>`_)
-
-
-False Positives Fixed
----------------------
-
-- Don't report ``super-init-not-called`` for abstract ``__init__`` methods.
-
-  Closes #3975 (`#3975 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3975>`_)
-- Don't report ``unsupported-binary-operation`` on Python <= 3.9 when using the ``|`` operator
-  with types, if one has a metaclass that overloads ``__or__`` or ``__ror__`` as appropriate.
-
-  Closes #4951 (`#4951 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/4951>`_)
-- Don't report ``no-value-for-parameter`` for dataclasses fields annotated with ``KW_ONLY``.
-
-  Closes #5767 (`#5767 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5767>`_)
-- Fixed inference of ``Enums`` when they are imported under an alias.
-
-  Closes #5776 (`#5776 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5776>`_)
-- Prevent false positives when accessing ``PurePath.parents`` by index (not slice) on Python 3.10+.
-
-  Closes #5832 (`#5832 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5832>`_)
-- ``unnecessary-list-index-lookup`` is now more conservative to avoid potential false positives.
-
-  Closes #6896 (`#6896 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6896>`_)
-- Fix double emitting ``trailing-whitespace`` for multi-line docstrings.
-
-  Closes #6936 (`#6936 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6936>`_)
-- ``import-error`` now correctly checks for ``contextlib.suppress`` guards on import statements.
-
-  Closes #7270 (`#7270 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7270>`_)
-- Fix false positive for `no-self-argument`/`no-method-argument` when a staticmethod is applied to a function but uses a different name.
-
-  Closes #7300 (`#7300 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7300>`_)
-- Fix `undefined-loop-variable` with `break` and `continue` statements in `else` blocks.
-
-  Refs #7311 (`#7311 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7311>`_)
-
-
-False Negatives Fixed
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-
-- Emit ``used-before-assignment`` when relying on a name that is reimported later in a function.
-
-  Closes #4624 (`#4624 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/4624>`_)
-- Emit ``used-before-assignment`` for self-referencing named expressions (``:=``) lacking
-  prior assignments.
-
-  Closes #5653 (`#5653 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5653>`_)
-- Using "default" in parameter signatures of NumPy doctrings emitted a `missing-param`
-  error.
-
-  Closes #6211 (`#6211 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6211>`_)
-- Emit ``used-before-assignment`` for self-referencing assignments under if conditions.
-
-  Closes #6643 (`#6643 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6643>`_)
-- Emit ``modified-iterating-list`` and analogous messages for dicts and sets when iterating
-  literals, or when using the ``del`` keyword.
-
-  Closes #6648 (`#6648 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6648>`_)
-- Emit ``used-before-assignment`` when calling nested functions before assignment.
-
-  Closes #6812 (`#6812 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6812>`_)
-- Emit ``nonlocal-without-binding`` when a nonlocal name has been assigned at a later point in the same scope.
-
-  Closes #6883 (`#6883 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6883>`_)
-- Emit ``using-constant-test`` when testing the truth value of a variable or call result
-  holding a generator.
-
-  Closes #6909 (`#6909 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6909>`_)
-- Rename ``unhashable-dict-key`` to ``unhashable-member`` and emit when creating sets and dicts,
-  not just when accessing dicts.
-
-  Closes #7034, Closes #7055 (`#7034 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7034>`_)
-
-
-Other Bug Fixes
----------------
-
-- Fix a failure to lint packages with ``__init__.py`` contained in directories lacking ``__init__.py``.
-
-  Closes #1667 (`#1667 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1667>`_)
-- Fixed a syntax-error crash that was not handled properly when the declared encoding of a file
-  was ``utf-9``.
-
-  Closes #3860 (`#3860 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3860>`_)
-- Fix a crash in the ``not-callable`` check when there is ambiguity whether an instance is being incorrectly provided to ``__new__()``.
-
-  Closes #7109 (`#7109 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7109>`_)
-- Fix crash when regex option raises a `re.error` exception.
-
-  Closes #7202 (`#7202 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7202>`_)
-- Fix `undefined-loop-variable` from walrus in comprehension test.
-
-  Closes #7222 (`#7222 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7222>`_)
-- Check for `<cwd>` before removing first item from `sys.path` in `modify_sys_path`.
-
-  Closes #7231 (`#7231 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7231>`_)
-- Fix sys.path pollution in parallel mode.
-
-  Closes #7246 (`#7246 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7246>`_)
-- Prevent `useless-parent-delegation` for delegating to a builtin
-  written in C (e.g. `Exception.__init__`) with non-self arguments.
-
-  Closes #7319 (`#7319 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7319>`_)
-
-
-Other Changes
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-
-- ``bad-exception-context`` has been renamed to ``bad-exception-cause`` as it is about the cause and not the context.
-
-  Closes #3694 (`#3694 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3694>`_)
-- The message for ``literal-comparison`` is now more explicit about the problem and the
-  solution.
-
-  Closes #5237 (`#5237 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5237>`_)
-- ``useless-super-delegation`` has been renamed to ``useless-parent-delegation`` in order to be more generic.
-
-  Closes #6953 (`#6953 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6953>`_)
-- Pylint now uses ``towncrier`` for changelog generation.
-
-  Refs #6974 (`#6974 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6974>`_)
-- Update ``astroid`` to 2.12.
-
-  Refs #7153 (`#7153 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7153>`_)
-- Fix crash when a type-annotated `__slots__` with no value is declared.
-
-  Closes #7280 (`#7280 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7280>`_)
-
-
-Internal Changes
-----------------
-
-- Fixed an issue where it was impossible to update functional tests output when the existing
-  output was impossible to parse. Instead of raising an error we raise a warning message and
-  let the functional test fail with a default value.
-
-  Refs #6891 (`#6891 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6891>`_)
-- ``pylint.testutils.primer`` is now a private API.
-
-  Refs #6905 (`#6905 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6905>`_)
-- 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 (`#6974 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6974>`_)
-- Pylint is now using Scorecards to implement security recommendations from the
-  `OpenSSF <https://openssf.org/>`_. This is done in order to secure our supply chains using a combination
-  of automated tooling and best practices, most of which were already implemented before.
-
-  Refs #7267 (`#7267 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7267>`_)
-
-
-What's new in Pylint 2.15.0?
-----------------------------
-Release date: 2022-08-26
-
-
 New Checks
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