Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > But the problem we are trying to solve is the fact that the NEWS > entries wind up in the _wrong_ section on merges.  Any thoughts > about how to solve that under Mercurial? > Could we add a version tag to each NEWS entry? Or perhaps, we

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

R. David Murray schrieb: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 at 12:40, Georg Brandl wrote: >> Yes, but still: in many cases they are very similar. >> >> Plus, it's hard to auto-add a NEWS entry from a commit message (because >> you need to determine the right section), while it's easy to pre-fill >> the commit m

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 at 12:40, Georg Brandl wrote: Yes, but still: in many cases they are very similar. Plus, it's hard to auto-add a NEWS entry from a commit message (because you need to determine the right section), while it's easy to pre-fill the commit message from a NEWS diff. But the prob

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 à 12:40 +0200, Georg Brandl a écrit : > Yes, but still: in many cases they are very similar. > > Plus, it's hard to auto-add a NEWS entry from a commit message (because > you need to determine the right section), while it's easy to pre-fill > the commit message from a N

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

Yes, but still: in many cases they are very similar. Plus, it's hard to auto-add a NEWS entry from a commit message (because you need to determine the right section), while it's easy to pre-fill the commit message from a NEWS diff. Georg Anthony Baxter schrieb: > Often the NEWS entry ends up bei

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

Often the NEWS entry ends up being rewritten from the commit message to be more user-focussed description of the change... On Sep 14, 2009 6:33 PM, "Georg Brandl" wrote: Brett Cannon schrieb: >> brainstorm: >> >> It'd be nicer if we could generate the file from another source, >> perhaps ke...

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

Brett Cannon schrieb: >> brainstorm: >> >> It'd be nicer if we could generate the file from another source, >> perhaps keep each releases news in its own file and merge it all >> together at release time? >> >> Or have a NEWS.latest file that contains only updates since the >> previous release (pa