Re: Organisation of NEWS file

Agreed with the approach of not putting a heading above dev tip. And NEWS
now looks good in terms of the specific cleanup you did. Thanks!

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 2:49 AM, Jeff Allen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Routine business, but this keeps confusing me, and I feel I may sometimes
> have inserted things in the wrong place. However, this is helpful:
> https://docs.python.org/devguide/committing.html?highlight=
> news#what-s-new-and-news-entries
>
> From the perspective of the reader, I think he needs to read NEWS as
> saying "In release such-and-such, the bugs fixed are: <list of bugs>".
>
> It follows that we insert bugs fixed at the top, and definitely above the
> name of the last release actually made at the time the bug fix went in.
> Possibly we are inserting under the title of the next release in prospect.
> If we follow the branch-naming strategy here:
> https://docs.python.org/devguide/devcycle.html#branches , then we often
> know what that release is to be called. It would be acceptable (better?)
> not to have a title at all above the first bug-fixed entry, meaning that it
> exists in the development tip (of the branch where you found the NEWS file).
>
> Accordingly, I'm moving the rc1 heading down to where it seems to belong,
> judging from a quick look at the commit log, and inserting rc2 and rc3
> headings. Do  put me right (& fix) if you're sure this is incorrect.
>
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> Jeff Allen
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