Using releasenotes extension for 4.4 cycle

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Mon Jul 24 11:41:47 EDT 2017


On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 11:39:21 -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> Rishabh has been doing great work on the releasenotes extension.
> 
> I'd like to start using it as part of developing Mercurial itself. And the
> sooner we do that, the sooner we'll flush out bugs, pain points, etc.
> 
> I'd like to propose attempting to use the releasenotes extension for the
> duration of the 4.4 cycle. I imagine this entails the following:

Sounds fine.

> * Bike shedding on the sections/admonitions to use for Mercurial itself
> (the default sections in the extension today might be good enough because
> they were modeled after Mercurial)
> * Encouraging patch authors to include admonitions in commit messages
> * Encouraging reviewers to add admonitions to commit messages when commits
> are queued

Can I expect native reviewers will rewrite that part? It could be a high
barrier for non-natives to send/queue patches.


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