new plugin: commit-from-news

[Ian Clatworthy]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 11:12 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
>> On 27 February 2010 23:39, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>>> This plugin takes the diff of any file called NEWS and provides as a
>>> default commit message, so that when documenting a change in NEWS, you
>>> don't need to also write a commit message.
>>>
>>> lp:bzr-commitfromnews
>>
>> That sounds good.  Can you please add it to the plugin guide in lp:bzr-alldocs?
> 
> I don't know if its appropriate (or not appropriate for that matter).
> Ian is the arbiter for that list, I thought?

It's appropriate. I'm happy to add it. Please raise a bug in
bzr-alldocs, assign it to me and I'll get to it the next time I refresh
the Plugins Guide.

> Can I beg again, for bzr-alldocs to be in lp:bzr? It would be /so much/
> more convenient.

It's an inversion of control thing. bzr-alldocs includes stuff that the
core project shouldn't need to know about, e.g. what's the current
stable vs test version, the registry of plugins, when to pick one plugin
over another (soon), etc. I don't feel any of that information ought to
live in the core.

In terms of convenience, it would be nice to have a bazaar metaproject
that used nested-trees to pull down bzr, bzr-alldocs and bzr-website.
One day. :-)

Ian C.