On May 24, 2013, at 7:09 AM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:

I think that's overly complicated. I don't see why we need anything
more than simply NEWS/3.4, NEWS/3.3, etc. and just split the files per
feature release since that's the interest (and merge) boundary.

+1 from me.  This is a straight-forward solution to the merge problem
and it recognizes that users don't really need to look across merge
boundaries.


Raymond