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Author larry
Recipients brett.cannon, dstufft, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, larry, lemburg, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, sbt, terry.reedy, tshepang, zach.ware
Date 2015-09-25.02:48:33
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> [...] commit messages are for other developers, which news entries are
> ultimately for users.  Some developers want (insist on) the freedom to
> make the two different, with different details.

That's easy enough to accommodate.  I updated "MergeNEWS" with this feature.  Well, a similar feature:

The file you edit at checkin time starts with "Issue #:".  You fill that out and that becomes your Misc/NEWS item, and the top of your checkin comment.

There's also a commented-out line of dashes below there.  Anything you put there is appended to *the checkin comment only*.

So, you get the user summary as per Misc/NEWS at the top, then you can elaborate in all the technical and flowery language you like.  Also, each section is optional (though obviously you have to fill out *one* of them).

It'd be easy to make the two comments completely separate.  I just figured, the Misc/NEWS entry is presumably a nice high-level summary of the solution, why not leave that there and save the developer from having to summarize it twice.
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2015-09-25 02:48:34larrysetrecipients: + larry, lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, ncoghlan, pitrou, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, tshepang, sbt, zach.ware, dstufft
2015-09-25 02:48:34larrysetmessageid: <1443149314.22.0.14491571052.issue18967@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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