Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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Description
The release process today contains a large number of manual transformation steps.
Fixing this will make the release process significantly easier for release managers, as well as less error-prone.
Ideally the output formats (NEWS, CHANGES in source tree, and HTML snippets for http://couchdb.org/ website and http://blogs.apache.org/couchdb ) can be auto-generated from either the .rst files in share/doc/src using sphinx's .versionaddded/changed tags, or potentially from commit messages if this is appropriate.
CouchDB documentation is generated today from restructured text using python code, and rolled into the release documentation during `make distcheck`.