[Python-Dev] Misc/NEWS entries for Python 3.7a1 (original) (raw)
INADA Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 08:49:41 EDT 2017
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Hi.
Currently, changelog of Python 3.7a1 [1] contains changes between 3.6b1 and 3.7a1. So lot's of bugfixes are listed twice or more in changelog. For example, "bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale..." are listed under 3.5.3rc1, 3.6.0b2 and 3.7.0a1.
[1] https://docs.python.org/3.7/whatsnew/changelog.html#changelog
This has two problems:
- The changelog is longer than necessary.
- If bpo-xxxx is fixed in 3.7a1, people may think the bug exists in 3.6.0, even if the bug is fixed in 3.6b2 too.
Since we stopped merging 3.6 -> master, I suggest to remove such duplicates. There are two ways:
A: 3.7a1 -> 3.6.0 -> 3.6.0rc2 ... -> 3.6a1 -> 3.5.0 ...
This may be what people expect. In this case, we will remove:
- 3.6.1(rc*) from changelog
- duplicated entries in 3.7.0 (which fixed before 3.6.0)
B: 3.7a1 -> 3.6b1 -> ... 3.6a1 -> 3.5b1 ...
This reflects our branch model. In this case, we will remove:
- All 3.6 versions after 3.6b1
How do you think?
Regards,
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