[postgis-devel] NEWS file in 3.0 branch

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 09:36:59PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 09:32:15PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > Release 2.5.3 contained that fix. I think the NEWS file in each 3.0.x
> > release should include all NEWS section of previous releases published
> > at the time of the new release.
> 
> I did this with 4dc5be03ba4864446738ff3db2a400e4fddc24e6
> Can you see if you like the solution ?
> 
> Note timeline linearity is retained:
> 
>   grep '^[0-9]\{4\}/[0-9]\{2\}' NEWS

I added a script to check linearity of history in the NEWS file
and made it run by `make check`
(or the specific target `make check-news`).

The script might be grown to also check for ticket references
(ensuring that each ticket reference found in git history
is also found in NEWS) but sounds more complex and error prone...

--strk;