On 02/22/2017 08:26 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

On 2/22/17 7:27 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

OpenStack happily fixed this issue one or two years ago with "reno":
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/reno
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What do you think of the overall idea?

I'm for it. I'd be interested in hearing what current and former release managers say.

I'm for it too. Fixing up Misc/NEWS is probably the trickiest and most error-prone part of cutting a release.

We've discussed this before, somewhere on bpo though I don't have the issue no. handy. I actually wrote a tool specifically to solve this problem at the time:

https://bitbucket.org/larry/mergenews

Obviously it's out of date as it's designed to work with Mercurial. I don't know how such a tool would be integrated into a Git-based workflow.

While I'm sure we can learn a lot by examining "reno", my suspicion is we'll want our own custom tool. I don't think the hard part is writing the tool--the hard part is figuring out what we want and how it should be integrated into our workflow. Actually writing such a tool is easy and fun, and I'm sure our community would fall all over themselves to write it if asked. In fact, I'll kind of pre-volunteer to write it right now, as long as I can write it in Python 3 ;-)

/arry