Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] New workflow change: Welcome to blurb
On 24 June 2017 at 14:01, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> wrote:
We've been talking about addressing this for years. Fixing this was one of the goals of the new workflow. And finally, as of right now, the future is here. Ladies and gentlemen, I present: blurb.
Yes, when you have a single NEWS file that needs to get updated, the process begins to fall apart when you have a pull request type of workflow which results in many merge conflicts to the single NEWS file.
Twisted and Buildbot use towncrier ( https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier ) which tries to solve the same problem as blurb.
Aye, towncrier and OpenStack's reno were the two main alternatives we looked at in addition to Larry's offer of creating a tool specifically for CPython: https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/6
We ultimately settled on blurb mainly because we wanted to be able to customise various details differently from the way towncrier works, and we figure they're close enough in spirit that folks familiar with one won't have any problems adapting to the other.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
On 06/23/2017 10:55 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Aye, towncrier and OpenStack's reno were the two main alternatives we looked at in addition to Larry's offer of creating a tool specifically for CPython: https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/6
Fun fact: all three tools started at about the same time, at least according to publicly visible commits. Towncrier started December 2015, reno in August 2015, and my first commits to "mergenews" (which eventually became blurb) were in September of 2015.
We'd actually been discussing it on bpo since at least September 2013:
https://bugs.python.org/issue18967//arry/
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