From 5018f7f377ee68a9e182ad3f6d9cd6e85a015c76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Kanzler <4189642+patkan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 14:22:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add checkpoint to release checklist for changelog (#578)

---
 CHANGELOG.rst               | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 doc/dev/release-process.rst |  1 +
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 029a406..958d71b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+20xx-xx-xx - Version x.x - ""
+-----------------------------
+`Release description`
+
+changes
+^^^^^^^
+- some
+- thing
+- has
+- changed
+
+contributors
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+- list
+- contributors
+
 2023-05-11 - Version 3.0a9 - "Pride Comes Before A Fall"
 --------------------------------------------------------
 This release is the 10th alpha release of the new version 3.0.
diff --git a/doc/dev/release-process.rst b/doc/dev/release-process.rst
index d392a6c..cf350bb 100644
--- a/doc/dev/release-process.rst
+++ b/doc/dev/release-process.rst
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ Release process
 * Set annotated tag for release and push to public github
 * Build wheel
 * Load wheel to PyPi
+* Prepare project for next release with an empty changelog entry