[rfc] NEWS handling

[Ian Clatworthy]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:58 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> 
>> I think it should be something where somebody e.g. generating the html
>> documentation or building a package off a random branch can generate
>> NEWS without needing any special help from pqm.
> 
> I was intending it to still be a versioned file - that lets it be
> tweaked and edited when appropriate.

Quite a few plugins have a NEWS file now, e.g. loom, fastimport.
Will your process/tool be applicable to those projects as well?

Ian C.