Changelog is too big and cannot be opened in Github

[yogevyuval]

Describe the issue

The Changelog has become so long, that sometimes github just failes in presenting it. It would be best to split into historical changelog and new one to make it usable again.

Links

https://github.com/boto/boto3/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.rst

[tim-finnigan]

Hi @yogevyuval thanks for reporting this. We also received the same issue for the AWS CLI: aws/aws-cli#7150

As mentioned there, you could use the following links as workarounds:

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boto/boto3/master/CHANGELOG.rst
• https://github.com/boto/boto3/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.rst?plain=1

We had reached out to GitHub about this issue: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/28239. At one point we observed that the the raw file would be displayed by default for large files, but that no longer seems to be the case.

It seems like https://github.com/boto/boto3/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.rst will sometimes load fine and other times show an error page. It probably depends on GitHub's traffic and your network connection. Ideally GitHub could provide a better solution for this scenario, as other repositories are affected as well.

The team could consider splitting up the CHANGELOG file as well, but given that using the https://raw... URL or appending ?plain=1 works fine (and that GitHub may adjust their loading behavior in the future), I think this is a lower priority issue.

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