[Python-Dev] New workflow change: Welcome to blurb
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Jun 24 13:06:31 EDT 2017
Larry,
I have just used blurb on https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2010
and it was absolutely painless. Thank you!
One minor thing: `make patchcheck` doesn't know to examine the NEWS.d
directory when checking for NEWS entries.
Regards
Antoine.
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:24:05 -0700
Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> One minor but ongoing problem we've had in CPython core development has
> been the mess of updating Misc/NEWS. Day-to-day developers may have a
> conflict if they lose a push race, which means a little editing. You'll
> have a similar, if slightly worse, problem when cherry-picking a fix
> between versions. Worst of all used to be the manual merges necessary
> after cutting a release--this was the bane of a CPython release
> manager's existence. (Though the new git-based workflow may have
> obviated the worst of this.)
>
> The real problem is that we have one central file that everybody
> continually edits in a haphazard way. We aren't actually editing the
> same information, we aren't actually changing the same lines. But our
> revision control systems and diff algorithms don't understand the
> structure of Misc/NEWS and so they get confused. And for what? It's not
> like there's a tremendous benefit to having this central file everyone's
> fighting over.
>
> 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.
>
> https://github.com/python/core-workflow/tree/master/blurb
>
>
> blurb is an interactive command-line tool that helps you write Misc/NEWS
> entries. You simply run blurb from anywhere inside a CPython repo.
> blurb runs an editor for you with a template open. You fill in these
> three pieces of information:
>
> * the bugs.python.org or "bpo" issue number,
> * what "section" of Misc/NEWS this entry should go in (by uncommenting
> the correct line), and
> * the text of the Misc/NEWS entry, in ReST format.
>
> You save and exit and you're done. blurb even stages the Misc/NEWS
> entry in git for you!
>
>
> Behind the scenes, blurb writes your information here:
>
> Misc/NEWS.d/next/<section-name>/<filename>
>
> The "<section-name>" is the name of the section in Misc/NEWS where your
> entry should go. <filename> contains the current date and time, the bpo
> number, and a nonce to prevent collisions.
>
> These "next" files get merged together into a single aggregate .rst file
> by the release manager when cutting a release (using "blurb release").
> One nice feature of this approach: when you cherry-pick a change, its
> Misc/NEWS entry in "next" gets cherry-picked along with it.
>
>
> One important change: Misc/NEWS will no longer be checked in. It'll
> still be present in CPython tarballs; it will be generated by the
> release manager as part of cutting a release. But as a repository of
> information, it's been superseded by the various blurb data files. And
> by regenerating it from data files, we ensure that we'll never ever have
> a Misc/NEWS conflict ever again!
>
> The plan is to leave Misc/NEWS in the CPython repo for maybe another
> week, to let the current crop of PRs get merged. But new work should
> switch to using blurb immediately.
>
>
> You can install blurb from pip:
>
> % pip3.6 install blurb
>
> In fact--please do!
>
>
> //arry/
>
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