<p dir="ltr">I forgot to follow up here that there was nary a peep from python-committers about the proposal of keeping NEWS entries in the issue tracker, so we have a green light to implement this idea.<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 15:39 Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:bcannon@gmail.com">bcannon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I have told python-committers of our plan to make sure it won't lead to a revolt.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 at 14:25 Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:bcannon@gmail.com" target="_blank">bcannon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:18 PM R. David Murray <<a href="mailto:rdmurray@bitdance.com" target="_blank">rdmurray@bitdance.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 17:44:04 -0000, Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:bcannon@gmail.com" target="_blank">bcannon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> OK, assuming David's in agreement then I think this approach wins with the<br>
> comma-separated field for commits that the hg hook for Roundup auto-appends<br>
> to and of course the field to enter the NEWS entry.<br>
><br>
> Now the next question is how easy/hard is it to implement this, how long<br>
> will it take, and who is willing to do the work? With this in hand we can<br>
> propose it to python-committers for 3.6 since the NEWS file should be easy<br>
> enough to back-fill to this approach while its still small.<br>
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Yes I agree this is the best approach, assuming we can get it<br>
implemented. The advantage of #4, though, is that Ezio already did the<br>
work.<br>
<br>
I'm *willing* to do the roundup work, but I don't know as I have the<br>
required time, at least for the next month. Part of the trick is the<br>
need to get a test instance set up...there was work done at PyCon and<br>
after at making a tracker-in-a-box, so I'd need to find out where that<br>
was at and learn how to use it (or finish it, if needed). The code<br>
itself is probably a half-day job, probably including enhancing the hook<br>
to update the commits field. But together with getting a working test<br>
instance we're talking a couple days work at least.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Perk of getting the tracker-in-a-box working is it's a one-time cost that will be beneficial long term.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Writing the NEWS generating script is a not exactly trivial job, but<br>
probably wants to wait until we have the REST API. So we'd have<br>
upgrading our Roundup to that when it lands on the list as well, with a<br>
3.6 Beta 1 deadline on getting it all done.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Yeah, so we have a bit of time to worry about the generation script. </div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div>