[Python-Dev] NEWS consolidation (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 22:21:46 -0400

>> XML is never high on your list of suggestions. On the other >> hand, it's exactly appropriate for this task.

GvR> Not if you ever want me to supply a news item again. XML is GvR> unreadable and untypable. So what about reST?

Probably overkill in this case, although it would allow nicer HTML to be generated e.g. for the release notes on the web.

I was thinking of using the entry format currently used (a paragraph with a leading hyphen) and a little bit of meta-data, e.g.:

If you want to get fancy, add:

If you really want to get fancy, some kind of linkage with CVS checkin messages might be cute, but usually there's no 1-1 correspondence between checkins and NEWS items.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)