[Python-Dev] Misc/NEWS entries for Python 3.7a1

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 at 23:36 INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:
> > On Mar 28, 2017, at 08:49, INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Currently, changelog of Python 3.7a1 [1] contains changes between
> >> 3.6b1 and 3.7a1.
> >> So lot's of bugfixes are listed twice or more in changelog.
> >> For example, "bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale..." are
> >> listed under 3.5.3rc1,
> >> 3.6.0b2 and 3.7.0a1.
> >>
> >> [1] https://docs.python.org/3.7/whatsnew/changelog.html#changelog
> > [...]
> >
> > Thanks for noticing. Misc/NEWS is always somewhat problematic.  As you
> probably know, the Core Workflow SIG, led by Brett, is working on a
> long-term solution to generating Misc/NEWS, a solution that should be
> available soon.  One of the duties of the release manager is to "edit"
> Misc/NEWS; I was planning to wait for the new Misc/NEWS solution and for
> more of the conversion to Git/GitHub to settle to do anything major to the
> master (i.e. 3.7) version.  There have already been some major merge
> mistakes for the 3.6.x Misc/NEWS.  I would recommend not to worry too much
> about master's Misc/NEWS right now.  I may do some cleaning up before the
> new Misc/NEWS process is introduced but I will also be reviewing it prior
> to each of the preview releases, which start later this year.
> >
> > --
> >   Ned Deily
> >   nad at python.org -- []
> >
>
> I forgot to mention about it.
> I have seen three preview pull requests about new NEWS handling.  All
> of them are quite large.
> That's one reason why I suggest removing some sections / entries from NEWS
> now.
> I thought reducing changelog size may help the transition.
>
> If I was wrong, let's stop discussion until transition.
> I want to help workflow team.  I don't want to disturb them.
>

I'm planning on make a decision on the tooling this week with the hope we
can start the transition by the end of April so that maybe everything can
be cleaned up by PyCon US.
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