Updating NEWS for fixed bugs

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
>
>> I assume we want to continue having the bug fixer be the one to update
>> the NEWS and continue not requiring a ChangeLog entry?
>
> The committer, I think (patches to NEWS won't generally apply directly for
> the same reason as patches to ChangeLog), when that differs from the
> person submitting the patch.

Agreed. Committer puts it in.

>> I notice in this case you've updated the NEWS separately from the
>> patch.  Is this what we want to do in general, or only if we forget to
>> update it with the patch?
>
> I think in general it should be done in the same commit as the patch, and
> only updated separately if we forget to do it with the patch.

Agreed. That's the point of commits.

Cheers,
Carlos.