Message 216945 - Python tracker

Message216945

Author	ezio.melotti
Recipients	brett.cannon, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, lemburg, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, sbt, terry.reedy, tshepang, zach.ware
Date	2014-04-21.13:57:12
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Message-id	<1398088632.6.0.804966363718.issue18967@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Unless one looks carefully, it does not help the problen of merging > maintenance bugfix items into a default list that also contains > enhancement news not in the maintenance list*. What if instead of having sections in Misc/NEWS for core/library/documentation/etc., we simply make sections for bug fixes and enhancements? Wouldn't this basically solve the conflict problem (assuming all/most bug fixes are backported, and new features are only on default)?

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> Unless one looks carefully, it does not help the problen of merging 
> maintenance bugfix items into a default list that also contains 
> enhancement news not in the maintenance list*.

What if instead of having sections in Misc/NEWS for core/library/documentation/etc., we simply make sections for bug fixes and enhancements?  Wouldn't this basically solve the conflict problem (assuming all/most bug fixes are backported, and new features are only on default)?

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2014-04-21 13:57:12	ezio.melotti	set	recipients: + ezio.melotti, lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, tshepang, sbt, zach.ware
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