meta: bump to 0.5.2 and fix pylint<3

Apparently pylint dropped support for Py3.8, and added a bunch of new
rules. As a result, the current CI trips over.

This is an attempt at hotfixing that by using pylint<3 (so pylint 2.x)
until I decided how to approach the situation exactly.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ jobs:
           - "3.8"
           - "3.9"
           - "3.10"
+          - "3.11"
+          - "3.12"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}

.pylintrc

@@ -302,6 +302,9 @@ max-locals=15
 # Maximum number of parents for a class (see R0901).
 max-parents=7
 
+# Maximum number of positional arguments for function / methods.
+max-positional-arguments=10
+
 # Maximum number of public methods for a class (see R0904).
 max-public-methods=20
 

Makefile

@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ coverages: coverage_report coverage_html
 .PHONY: develop qa build
 
 develop:
-	pip install -U -r requirements.txt
-	pip install -e .
+	python -m pip install -U pip
+	python -m pip install -U  -r requirements.txt
+	python -m pip install -e .
 
 qa: lint-check test coverages lint-style
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ namespaces = false
 
 [project]
 name = "sopel-help"
-version = "0.5.1"
+version = "0.5.2"
 description = "Help plugin for Sopel"
 keywords = ["sopel", "irc", "help", "doc", "plugin"]
 maintainers = [

requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # requirements for dev
 
 flake8
-pylint
+pylint<3
 coverage
 pytest
 requests-mock