pre_release(): combine all NEWS items from previous development releases

[krlmlr]

automatically, keep a # 1.6.0.9999 header to ensure that it is still edited.

[maelle]

Seems related to #147, and useful

[krlmlr]

If conventional commits (#145) are used, we would also distribute the NEWS items under second-level headings.

[maelle]

and order them

[maelle]

Also

• remove "Same as previous version."
• If there's any other item, remove "Internal changes only."?

[maelle]

For this and conventional commit parsing, should fledge take a dependency on https://github.com/ropensci/tinkr/? 😇 With tinkr one can do Markdown to XML, XML wrangling (with xml2), XML back to Markdown.

[maelle]

(tinkr should get on CRAN soon-ish ropensci/tinkr#43 (comment))

[maelle]

another thing that's needed is parsing of the version headers.

• it should work with the same syntaxes as what pkgdown supports (so h1 or h2, with/without the package name).
• it should be able to strip the date, hopefully the data is always at the end between parentheses.
• it should be able to assess what version numbers are dev ones (4 components).

[krlmlr]

Should this discussion and decision be part of #331, turning that issue into a blocker here?

[krlmlr]

This and many many other issues will be much easier with #331.

[zkamvar]

(tinkr should get on CRAN soon-ish ropensci/tinkr#43 (comment))

soon-ish is now :)

[maelle]

combining would "easily" work with #588, I tried the code below on fledge itself.

fledgling <- read_fledgling()
regroup_news(
    unlist(
      fledgling$news[1:(nrow(fledgling$news) - 1),]$news,
      recursive = FALSE
  )
)

[maelle]

Special care will be needed for "Internal changes only" (to be removed if there are other items!)

[maelle]

I think this combining should happen in bump_version() or something else lower level than pre_release() so that people who use a workflow like #147 can benefit. 🤔

[maelle]

should this go in milestone 1.0.1, as a low-hanging fruit ?

[krlmlr]

Is it low-hanging now?

I haven't reviewed the milestones in a while.

[maelle]

it will be once #588 is merged, at least I think so.

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