On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:18 PM R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 17:44:04 -0000, Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > OK, assuming David's in agreement then I think this approach wins with >> > the >> > comma-separated field for commits that the hg hook for Roundup >> > auto-appends >> > to and of course the field to enter the NEWS entry. >> > >> > Now the next question is how easy/hard is it to implement this, how long >> > will it take, and who is willing to do the work? With this in hand we >> > can >> > propose it to python-committers for 3.6 since the NEWS file should be >> > easy >> > enough to back-fill to this approach while its still small. >> >> Yes I agree this is the best approach, assuming we can get it >> implemented. The advantage of #4, though, is that Ezio already did the >> work. >> >> I'm *willing* to do the roundup work, but I don't know as I have the >> required time, at least for the next month. Part of the trick is the >> need to get a test instance set up...there was work done at PyCon and >> after at making a tracker-in-a-box, so I'd need to find out where that >> was at and learn how to use it (or finish it, if needed). The code >> itself is probably a half-day job, probably including enhancing the hook >> to update the commits field. But together with getting a working test >> instance we're talking a couple days work at least. > > > Perk of getting the tracker-in-a-box working is it's a one-time cost that > will be beneficial long term. >
FYI Shiyao (one of the GSoC students) has been working on https://bitbucket.org/introom/docker-b.p.o/src . Best Regards, Ezio Melotti > I also don't think there is a rush since we still have to convince > python-committers that this is the right solution. I plan to propose it on > Monday to the list to make sure we have buy-in. > >> >> Writing the NEWS generating script is a not exactly trivial job, but >> probably wants to wait until we have the REST API. So we'd have >> upgrading our Roundup to that when it lands on the list as well, with a >> 3.6 Beta 1 deadline on getting it all done. > > > Yeah, so we have a bit of time to worry about the generation script. > _______________________________________________ core-workflow mailing list core-workflow@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-workflow This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct
