On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 13:26, Antoine Pitrou solipsis@pitrou.net wrote:
Le dimanche 13 septembre 2009 à 13:15 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit :
Or simply take the first line of each commit? I mean why do we enter it twice? If we have a commit that is unimportant we could come up with some convention to make it as such or simply have the comment start with a blank line.
The NEWS file is often more carefully, or differently, worded than commit messages are.
Right, which is why only the first line would be used. All the other usual detail can be there, just do it on another line.
Trying to generate it automatically would probably involve some a posteriori maintenance, and I doubt it's really worth it (at worse, you save a copy / paste in the cases where the commit message is perfectly adequate as a NEWS entry).
I suspect we would have to start either at some golden revision or not until a release happens.
-Brett