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Author	pitrou
Recipients	brett.cannon, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, lemburg, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, sbt, terry.reedy, tshepang, zach.ware
Date	2014-04-20.23:59:40
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1398038381.28.0.0719956846162.issue18967@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> This is already not a rule because the devguide mentions inserting new > items at random positions to avoid conflicts due to another commit. Really? """New NEWS entries are customarily added at or near the top of their respective sections, so that entries within a section appear in approximate order from newest to oldest. However, this is customary and not a requirement.""" > In any case, the News entries are not necessarily time ordered now. IME, they mostly are. It's true it's not a requirement.

> This is already not a rule because the devguide mentions inserting new 
> items at random positions to avoid conflicts due to another commit.

Really?

"""New NEWS entries are customarily added at or near the top of their respective sections, so that entries within a section appear in approximate order from newest to oldest. However, this is customary and not a requirement."""

> In any case, the News entries are not necessarily time ordered now.

IME, they mostly are. It's true it's not a requirement.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-04-20 23:59:41	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, ncoghlan, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, tshepang, sbt, zach.ware
2014-04-20 23:59:41	pitrou	set	messageid: <1398038381.28.0.0719956846162.issue18967@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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