In the past we haven't done that because often the change logs are either too chatty (they do administrative stuff that doesn't deserve a NEWS entry) or they are too brief (in the heat of the battle developers don't always write great changelog entries). While it's easy to fix NEWS its not easy to fix changelog entries (only a few svn super-users can do it, and it's a pain).
--Guido On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that doing merges is rather painful because of the Misc/NEWS > files. Would it be possible to have the NEWS log generated from commit > messages? I was thinking something like this in a message: > > Fixed this and that > > **NEWS:Library** > #1234 X is now known as Y. > > It should be fairly simple to write a script to extract and compile > these messages into NEWS before release. > > -- > Cheers, > Benjamin Peterson > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
