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#133 — docs build MethodError: no code change in this repo, root cause is upstream

#133 is NOT fixed by a commit in this PR — I could not find anything to
fix here, because there is nothing broken on current main. Details:

• Reproduced the exact MethodError from the issue directly (not via the
  docs build) by building a clean env with the registered
  LoweredDistributions v0.1.0 + this package and calling
  lower(modify(Exponential(2.0), -log(2.0); link = log)).
• Root cause: lower() for a HazardLink-modified distribution is served
  by LoweredDistributionsModifiedDistributionsExt, an extension that lives
  in LoweredDistributions.jl, not here (by design — decision docs: add functionality tutorials and document the ComposedDistributions extension #23). That
  extension was dropped from LoweredDistributions.jl so it could register
  itself ahead of this package (this package was unregistered until
  2026-08-06). Restoring it is a still-open draft PR,
  LoweredDistributions.jl#105.
  I verified directly against a fresh install of the real registered LD
  v0.1.0 (tree-sha b8f7606a) that it genuinely has no ModifiedDistributions
  weakdep/extension yet.
• docs/src/getting-started/tutorials/lowering.jl (the file the MethodError
  traces to) was already excluded from the docs build by chore: sync the kit, clear every git pin, and unblock registration #129, merged
  2026-08-03 — about 30 minutes after docs build broken on main: lower() MethodError for HazardLink-modified distributions in lowering.md #133 was filed against a pre-chore: sync the kit, clear every git pin, and unblock registration #129
  main. I confirmed on a fresh checkout of current main that
  task docs-fast does not build lowering.jl and does not hit this error.
• So: the reported symptom already stopped reproducing before I started, for
  reasons unrelated to anything in this PR. I left comments explaining this
  on #133
  and #130
  (the tracking issue for restoring the tutorial) so the two don't get
  reopened/restored prematurely — registration alone isn't enough, LD#105
  also needs to ship a release.
• Recommend closing docs build broken on main: lower() MethodError for HazardLink-modified distributions in lowering.md #133 once LD#105 ships (at which point Restore the lowering tutorial once LoweredDistributions registers #130 restores the
  tutorial). Not doing that here since it's not this repo's fix to make.

#135 — point release notes at GitHub Releases

• Rewrote docs/release_notes_header.jl to introduce the fetched-at-build
  GitHub releases instead of describing NEWS.md, matching
  EpiAwarePackageTools#368's convention.
• docs/pages.jl already had the "Release notes" nav entry from an earlier
  kit sync — no change needed.
• Updated docs/src/developer/release-process.md's "Release notes" section
  and pre-release checklist to stop telling contributors to write NEWS.md
  entries.
• Kept NEWS.md rather than deleting it (this repo caps
  EpiAwarePackageTools at compat "0.2" in both docs/Project.toml and
  test/Project.toml, which share one Manifest via the Julia workspace
  feature; Dependabot's grouped Julia PR is what bumps all of them together,
  not a per-file hand-edit). Until that lands, the currently-resolved 0.2.0
  kit still literally concatenates this header with NEWS.md; deleting it
  now would make the release-notes page render nothing in the interim. The
  new header is inert either way and starts working the moment the compat
  bump merges.

#131 — stable-link follow-ups

• Switched the ConvolvedDistributions related-package link to /stable/
  (confirmed 200 today). Left ComposedDistributions at /dev/ (confirmed
  still 404).
• Left this package's own /dev → /stable switch and the /stable
  linkcheck-ignore drop out of scope: v0.1.0 is registered in General,
  but no git tag/GitHub release exists yet, so
  https://modifieddistributions.epiaware.org/stable/ still 404s. Filed
  #150
  — TagBot's only post-registration run fired before the registry PR
  merged and logged "This package is not registered, skipping"; nothing has
  re-dispatched it since.
• Item 3 (Discussions linkcheck ignore) was already handled by docs: point the FAQ at Discourse and the forum, not GitHub Discussions #134 before
  I started; nothing to do.

Overlap with PR #140

None. #140 touches docs/docs_config.jl's LINKCHECK_IGNORE (the
community.epinowcast.org 429 flake); this PR doesn't touch that file. I
did confirm from the CI logs that the actual failing main Documenter run
(2026-08-05) failed on exactly that flaky linkcheck, not on anything related
to #133 — so #140 is the real fix for that failure, and this PR is unrelated
to it.

Verification

task docs-fast builds clean on this branch (confirmed twice, most recently
after all commits above).

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Option 1: Julia Package Manager

Open Julia and type:

import Pkg
Pkg.activate(temp=true)
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/EpiAware/ModifiedDistributions.jl", rev="fix/docs-build-133")
using ModifiedDistributions

Option 2: Local Checkout

If you have the repo locally:

git checkout fix/docs-build-133
julia --project=. -e "using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()"

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