To aid in releases and PRs, it would be nice not to have to do so much changelog management. In particular, it would be great if:

1. We didn't have to tell people to add anything to doc/changes/latest.inc
2. A changelog could be (at least nearly) automatically generated

Ideas:

• In sphinx-gallery we use github-changelog-generator in between releases. You label PRs (before or after merge!) to get them correctly categorized as enhancement/bug. I think you can even change the PR title after the merge to then have that text used in the changelog entry.

Clearly this list is incomplete :) @drammock or others feel free to add other ideas up here after commenting about them below