[python-committers] Pulling from contributors repositories

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/6/12 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org>:
> There are several ways we could eliminate this needless pain.  Probably
> the simplest would be to agree on a simple format for including the NEWS
> and ACK info in the hg commit message and then agree on a process to
> batch update the NEWS and ACK files from the commit messages prior to
> each release.

The problem with this method is that spelling can't be fixed and
messages can't be reformatted or expanded.

Another method would be to write a extension for Mercurial which is
"smart" about the format of Misc/NEWS and could do the resolution
automatically.



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Regards,
Benjamin