ci: ensure changelog news fragment author usage

.github/scripts/changelog.py

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 # Copyright (c) 2021, GeoVista Contributors.
 #
 # This file is part of GeoVista and is distributed under the 3-Clause BSD license.
 # See the LICENSE file in the package root directory for licensing details.
 
-"""Perform quality assurance of pull-request changelog.
+"""Perform quality assurance of pull-request changelog news fragments.
 
 Notes
 -----
@@ -239,7 +240,9 @@ def main(pr: str, changelog: str, verbose: bool) -> None:
     # sanitise the csv news fragment file names
     fragments = changelog.split(",")
     fragments = [
-        str(Path(fragment.strip()).relative_to(base)) for fragment in fragments
+        str(Path(fragment.strip()).relative_to(base))
+        for fragment in fragments
+        if fragment
     ]
     debug(f"{fragments=}", verbose=verbose)
 

.github/workflows/ci-changelog.yml

@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ jobs:
         env:
           CHANGELOG: "${{ steps.changes.outputs.changelog_files }}"
           PR: "${{ github.event.number }}"
-          SCRIPTS: "./.github/scripts"
+        working-directory: .github/scripts
         run: |
           python -m pip install click towncrier
           python -c "import sys; print(f'version = {sys.version}')"
           towncrier --version
-          python ${SCRIPTS}/changelog.py "${PR}" "${CHANGELOG}"
+          ./changelog.py --verbose "${PR}" "${CHANGELOG}"

changelog/1317.contributor.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+There is no author mentioned here.
+And there should be.
+(`bjlittle`)