I forgot to follow up here that there was nary a peep from python-committers about the proposal of keeping NEWS entries in the issue tracker, so we have a green light to implement this idea.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 15:39 Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have told python-committers of our plan to make sure it won't lead to a > revolt. > > On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 at 14:25 Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:18 PM R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 17:44:04 -0000, Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > OK, assuming David's in agreement then I think this approach wins with >>> the >>> > comma-separated field for commits that the hg hook for Roundup >>> auto-appends >>> > to and of course the field to enter the NEWS entry. >>> > >>> > Now the next question is how easy/hard is it to implement this, how >>> long >>> > will it take, and who is willing to do the work? With this in hand we >>> can >>> > propose it to python-committers for 3.6 since the NEWS file should be >>> easy >>> > enough to back-fill to this approach while its still small. >>> >>> Yes I agree this is the best approach, assuming we can get it >>> implemented. The advantage of #4, though, is that Ezio already did the >>> work. >>> >>> I'm *willing* to do the roundup work, but I don't know as I have the >>> required time, at least for the next month. Part of the trick is the >>> need to get a test instance set up...there was work done at PyCon and >>> after at making a tracker-in-a-box, so I'd need to find out where that >>> was at and learn how to use it (or finish it, if needed). The code >>> itself is probably a half-day job, probably including enhancing the hook >>> to update the commits field. But together with getting a working test >>> instance we're talking a couple days work at least. >>> >> >> Perk of getting the tracker-in-a-box working is it's a one-time cost that >> will be beneficial long term. >> >> I also don't think there is a rush since we still have to convince >> python-committers that this is the right solution. I plan to propose it on >> Monday to the list to make sure we have buy-in. >> >> >>> Writing the NEWS generating script is a not exactly trivial job, but >>> probably wants to wait until we have the REST API. So we'd have >>> upgrading our Roundup to that when it lands on the list as well, with a >>> 3.6 Beta 1 deadline on getting it all done. >>> >> >> Yeah, so we have a bit of time to worry about the generation script. >> >
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