On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:37:46 -0700 Larry Hastings <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/24/2017 09:14 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > Not only core developers make PRs for CPython. Since all non-trivial > > changes need to be mentioned in Misc/NEWS, blurb becomes a required > > tool for all committers. > > Well, no. *Writing blurb-compatible files* becomes a required step for > all committers. And blurb makes that easy. But it's pretty easy to > write them by hand; that's why we pre-created the "next" directories, > and there are instructions in the dev guide.
Hmm. If it were so easy, you wouldn't have felt the need to add that functionality to blurb, right? :-) This is touching a more general problem, though. Before GitHub, we (core developers) would take the patch submitted by a contributor, make whatever minor changes were needed (e.g. Misc/NEWS) and push the aggregate ourselves. With GitHub, while it's possible to edit someone else's PR, it's frankly a PITA (I've tried to do it once, I don't want to try a second time unless GitHub makes it massively easier and less footgunning-prone). So we have to rely on contributors to make the PR merge-ready by themselves... which means spending some time guiding them through the oh-so-exciting steps necessary to add the right Misc/NEWS entry, or fix the occasional bit of reStructuredText mis-syntax. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
