Re: NEWS entry format

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:52:16PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:26:39AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Kenneth Rohde Christiansen">
> > 
> > > How does this allow me to keep old news in the NEWS file as well?
> > 
> > See my other post. I'm describing the entry delimiter.
> 
>   Kenneth's one looks quite clearer to me. No offence, but
> one usually read a NEWS to find a change or a feature and
> map this to a release number. Your proposal doesn't make it
> any easier, Kenneth's one is easilly machine parseable and 
> also less challengin brain-wise.

I'll agree with Kenneth Daniel here.
Gnumeric uses

	Gnumeric <version>

	<changes>
	---------------------------------

The advantage of this sort of a format is that the only agreement
necessary is on what form the version delimiter should take.
Something like 'any line consisting of 40 or more consequtive - or =
seems pretty universal.