There really isn't. We use NEWS.md in julia, and presumably that could be come standard.
I really wish we could have a mechanism, where Pkg.publish() prompts you for a NEWS update, appends it to NEWS.md, and then also submits it as part of the PR - so that when merging in METADATA.jl, one can see what new features or fixes come as part of that particular package update. -viral On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 7:43:36 PM UTC-8, i.cos...@me.com wrote: > > Is there a standard method for declaring a package's changes in a package > NEWS file? Couldn't find anything in Julia docs. I think some packages use > a NEWS.md file at the top level (e.g. DataFrames, Gadfly, Distributions), > but others do not (e.g. Dates, Optim). >
