In jaraco/jaraco.collections#16, the author referenced themselves in the news fragment, but that caused the release to fail (late, only after finalizing the release).

They got the impression they could use this syntax because it was contributed downstream to Setuptools but not to other projects.

We should probably add support for that in all skeleton and coherent projects.

Of course, the way it's implemented is not sustainable because the config requires hard-coded values.