Hi all, the most laborious part of doing a new release is writing the "What's new" document. Together with Armin and Maciek, we tried to find a way to make it easier and less time consuming.
The idea is that whenever someone merges a branch to default, he should also briefly document what it does by writing a couple of lines in doc/whatsnew-1.9.rst. I also added a test (doc/test/test_whatsnew.py) which checks that all the merged branches are mentioned in the document. To document a branch, you have to include a special rst comment ".. branch: BRANCH-NAME" which is recognized by the test. If the branch is uninteresting for the what's new document, one can just add the comment somewhere in the doc without writing anything. At the moment the test is passing because I added empty docs for all the branches merged so far. It would be nice if everyone could have a look at it and document the branches he merged. ciao, Anto _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
