[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1787) Automate release process documentation

["Nithish R (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nithish R commented on COUCHDB-1787:
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I am a participant of the ICFOSS- Apache Software Foundation Joint Mentorship Programme[1]. I am interested in doing this task. I know Python to an intermediate level. I would like to know more details.
[1] http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme-icfoss-pilot.html
                
> Automate release process documentation
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1787
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1787
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Build System, Documentation
>            Reporter: Dave Cottlehuber
>              Labels: gsoc, mentor
>
> 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`.

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