[python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS? (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Sun May 26 22:22:36 CEST 2013

On May 26, 2013 1:15 PM, "Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> wrote:

On May 25, 2013 9:18 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > >> The NEWS update script could even use the revision history to decide > >> which order to add entries to the bulleted list. > > > > I think the annoyance with this approach is you will have to remember > > to add a file every time you do anything worthy of NEWS. Without > > something like hg newsworthy to take an optional issue # and then > > have you enter your NEWS entry and then use that to pre-populate the > > commit message, people will forget. Now granted adding the commit > > later is not a huge deal, but it is something that might happen if you > > forget to hg st before committing. > > How is that any different from the status quo with people forgetting > an entry in NEWS? Just the extra step of needing to "hg add" the news > entry? I didn't think there was a forgetfulness issue. I'm just trying to lower the overhead of doing a merge. > > Well, perhaps we can do this in two phases - resolve the persistent > problem of merge conflicts first, and then worry about the separate > push race problem later. If we can ever agree on a solution. :)

If people are still allowed to edit Misc/NEWS manually while a tools and alternatives are worked out that ultimately merge their entries into the original file at release time I think no agreement is needed beyond from the release managers who presumably get to ensure it all happens to generate the single file at tag/branch time.

Try a few things out, see what sticks and vote on what the ultimate solution for everyone should be at that point.

-brett > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/attachments/20130526/2de63685/attachment.html>

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