[MERGE](trivial) Update NEWS for 0.16rc1 and reST syntax

[Martin Pool]

On 4/27/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 12:27 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> >
> > The other thing I cleaned up was the 'attribution' lines. Now they are
> > all of the form (Committer Name, #bugnumber), and put on a single line
> > rather than wrapping in the middle. I think this will make it possible
> > to even auto-parse the NEWS file if we want to generate something from
> > it.
>
> I'd really prefer that we do something like Ubuntu changelogs do for bug
> references::
>
>   fix|fixes|close|closes (#?(tracker:)?1234)+
>
> e.g.
>   * Frazzle the snogwillie. (Robert Collins, fixes #lp:1234,)
>
> Just #bugnumber is too brief in my opinion. We might want 'implements'
> as well. e.g.
>   * Stomp on the dancing spaces (Robert Collins, fixes #lp:2134,
> implements 'dance-stomping').

ok with me, but let's do a batch change rather than mix and match.

-- 
Martin