Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: >> The NEWS update script could even use the revision history to decide >> which order to add entries to the bulleted list. > > I think the annoyance with this approach is you will have to remember > to add a file every time you do anything wort

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: >> I like where you're heading with this but it still leaves merges during >> Spruits and when a few people are working at once by putting stuff in a >> single file. I don't know if s

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > I like where you're heading with this but it still leaves merges during > Spruits and when a few people are working at once by putting stuff in a > single file. > > Per news item / per issue files for each release that are riled up into th

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On May 25, 2013 8:29 AM, "Gregory P. Smith" wrote: > > > On May 25, 2013 1:40 AM, "Nick Coghlan" wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Raymond Hettinger > > > wrote: > > >> and it recognizes that users don't really need to look a

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On May 25, 2013 1:40 AM, "Nick Coghlan" wrote: > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Raymond Hettinger > > wrote: > >> and it recognizes that users don't really need to look across merge > >> boundaries. > > > > This is tricky though for any p

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> The 3.3 branch layout would look like this: >> >> NEWS.next/ >> 3.3.txt # Categorised changes > > Categorized how? E.g. Core,Lib,Docs, etc.? Or "3.3 only", "3.3 and 3.4"? J

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Eric Snow > wrote: >> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Raymond Hettinger >> wrote: >>> and it recognizes that users don't really need to look across merge >>> boundaries. >> >> This is tricky though for any

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Raymond Hettinger > wrote: >> and it recognizes that users don't really need to look across merge >> boundaries. > > This is tricky though for any patch that is forward-ported to a > release branch (a la 3.2->3.3