Small enhancement: I added Python 3.5 support to blurb with the help of Serhiy Storchaka ;-)
Victor 2017-06-25 10:33 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:37:46 -0700 > Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: >> On 06/24/2017 09:14 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: >> > Not only core developers make PRs for CPython. Since all non-trivial >> > changes need to be mentioned in Misc/NEWS, blurb becomes a required >> > tool for all committers. >> >> Well, no. *Writing blurb-compatible files* becomes a required step for >> all committers. And blurb makes that easy. But it's pretty easy to >> write them by hand; that's why we pre-created the "next" directories, >> and there are instructions in the dev guide. > > Hmm. If it were so easy, you wouldn't have felt the need to add that > functionality to blurb, right? :-) > > This is touching a more general problem, though. Before GitHub, we > (core developers) would take the patch submitted by a contributor, make > whatever minor changes were needed (e.g. Misc/NEWS) and push the > aggregate ourselves. With GitHub, while it's possible to edit someone > else's PR, it's frankly a PITA (I've tried to do it once, I don't want > to try a second time unless GitHub makes it massively easier and less > footgunning-prone). So we have to rely on contributors to make the PR > merge-ready by themselves... which means spending some time guiding > them through the oh-so-exciting steps necessary to add the right > Misc/NEWS entry, or fix the occasional bit of reStructuredText > mis-syntax. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/victor.stinner%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
