[python-committers] A possible solution to the Misc/NEWS merging problem

[Robert Collins]

On 11 August 2015 at 10:38, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have all been there: you fix something in some maintenance branch, do
> your `hg pull` into the default branch, and everything but Misc/NEWS merges
> cleanly. You typically revert Misc/NEWS, commit your forward-ported change
> to default, and then move on with your life. It would be much easier if
> Misc/NEWS was never an issue.
...
> The whole point of this email is to let everyone know that this is the plan
> and should be coming in a couple of months (I'm also hoping to make a
> decision about a new overall workflow by 2016, but I need to hear back from
> Donald first about whether the proposed timeline for a test instance will
> work for him). If you hate this idea so much that it will cause you to stop
> contributing to Python then let me know, otherwise I'm going to assume
> people are either happy with this approach or will begrudgingly accept it.

Clearly I should join the core-workflow list.

Has anyone put forward the 'standard' solution other projects use: to
extract NEWS entries from commit logs?

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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