On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 at 15:22 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-07-16 16:10 GMT+02:00 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: > > What is the benefit of converting old Misc/NEWS entries? > > I guess that the benefit is to use a single format for all NEWS > entries. I understand that it will ease the build of the changelog. > It's to ease backporting since you will never have Misc/NEWS have a merge conflict ever again. > > > Do you have an idea of many files we will get? > > Do we plan to remove old entries? > > Before: 47 files in master. > After: 546 files. Ok, it's not much. > > I didn't know that blurb supports "packing" NEWS entries into a single > file, like Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a1.rst which contains 598 entries. Cool! > > My fear was to get 10,000 files in Misc/NEWS and starting to get > performance issues with Git on some platforms. > Yeah, I already had that fear for you. :) > > With the PR #2719 (convert Misc/NEWS to blurb for master), the Git > repository contains 4,340 files. On my laptop, I didn't notice any > major performance related to that. > That was a design goal.
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