NEWS patches v2

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sun, Oct 18 2015, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 17 2015, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I had a series in progress more or less at the same time as Jani, so
>>> of course there were all kinds of silly conflicts.
>>>
>>> I rebased the two series together, and tried to get most of Tomi's
>>> formatting comments.
>>
>> From the formatting point of view this series looks good -- with luck
>> I don't have to do post-release NEWS formatting tunes this time(*) ;)
>>
>> Jani: the tool to "check" formatting is devel/news2wiki.pl
>
> Oh, but it doesn't complain on what I wrote, and then you have to check
> whether the markdown output is all right or not... which is roughly
> equivalent of manually checking the input?

Roughly ;p -- it is somewhat easier to look markdown than stare trailing
dots...

But yes, there is no tool to do any part of the checking automatically.
Perhaps the simplest one could be that if there is trailing dots in a
block that is not indented, write a message which informs that if the
line in question is supposed to be a header line, drop trailing dot...

Tomi


>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>>
>> (*) perhaps this time I have a chance (i.e. remember) to run
>> devel/news2wiki.pl *before* release.
>>
>> Tomi