2015-11-03 10:24, Bruce Richardson: > The release notes "New Feature" section is always one that causes conflicts on > apply of patches. I think Thomas is ok to handle that on apply, or else we'd > all > be constantly rebasing.
Yes, it is a common conflict managed when applying. > For 2.3 we maybe need to come up with a new way to modify this to make > applying > patches easier. For example, can the new features section just be pulled from > a set of individual single-bullet-point files inside a directory? Then each > new > feature just drops its addition in a new file and there are no conflicts. Can > rst be used to pull into a doc a directory: e.g. "new_features/*.rst"? Good idea. But we should try to have some automatic sorting in the list.